MSI B450 Tomahawk

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	51.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago, 11 months ago.

System	Micro-Star MS-7C02
Motherboard	MSI B450 Tomahawk (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180702
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Oct 21 '19 at 02:07
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X-$164 206,218 User benchmarks, average bench 81% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 82.8 1-Core 118 2-Core 234 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 783 79% 628 Pts	64-Core 994 67% 994 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$265 137,674 User benchmarks, average bench 74% MSI(1462 375A) CLim: 2280 MHz, MLim: 3052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 436.48 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	78.5% Very good	Lighting 315 Reflection 252 Parallax 310 83% 292 fps	MRender 226 Gravity 280 Splatting 188 79% 231 fps
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 80%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba OCZ TL100 120GB-$80 1,439 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFZ10.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 65 100 82 77 97 56 MB/s Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	51.8% Above average	Read 28.5 Write 97.7 Mixed 136 SusWrite 79.6 20% 85.5 MB/s	4K Read 33.6 4K Write 72.8 4K Mixed 28.4 126% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 125 107% 161 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 85%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$38 2,002,823 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 830GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 176 171 170 170 174 176 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 176 Mixed 111 SusWrite 173 117% 159 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 1.2 231% 1.7 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GB 47,728 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2933 MHz clocked @ 1467 MHz Performing below potential (92^nd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	103% Outstanding	MC Read 41.2 MC Write 37.7 MC Mixed 33 107% 37.3 GB/s	SC Read 24.9 SC Write 38.5 SC Mixed 28.6 88% 30.7 GB/s	Latency 75.5 53% 75.5 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 105%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds.

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Gaming 50%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 47%

Yacht

Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk - $130

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $149Bench 78%, 473,453 samples	4,070x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $175Bench 85%, 511,620 samples	2,991x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 82%, 361,298 samples	2,084x

GPU
RX 580AMD $170Bench 57%, 521,268 samples	1,508x
RX 5700-XTAMD $399Bench 107%, 214,235 samples	1,318x
RTX 2060Nvidia $328Bench 85%, 261,653 samples	1,194x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $69Bench 107%, 397,002 samples	1,066x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 113%, 266,787 samples	553x
660p NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBIntel $110Bench 201%, 86,907 samples	469x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $69Bench 85%, 407,726 samples	1,904x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $69Bench 86%, 295,607 samples	1,076x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $60Bench 85%, 146,290 samples	664x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $587

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9600K $195	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $230	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-9400F $140	Nvidia GTX 1650S (Super) $170	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i7-9700K $299	Nvidia RTX 3080 $700	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $47

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $43	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $69	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $69	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $30
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $28