Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 25% Surfboard	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	16.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	250% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190509
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 26 '19 at 21:37
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^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 2400G-$135 127,344 User benchmarks, average bench 63% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 83.8 1-Core 114 2-Core 213 78% 137 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 628 67% 532 Pts	64-Core 630 39% 630 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega 11 (Ryzen iGPU) 44,235 User benchmarks, average bench 15% AMD(1002 15DD) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 19.20 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	16.9% Very poor	Lighting 20.8 Reflection 18.1 Parallax 28.6 17% 22.5 fps	MRender 16.4 Gravity 23.1 Splatting 21.4 17% 20.3 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 16.9% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$46 87,206 User benchmarks, average bench 234% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 740 424 421 429 426 428 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	250% Outstanding	Read 2508 Write 2,224 Mixed 1,560 SusWrite 478 377% 1,693 MB/s	4K Read 61.4 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 80.9 264% 90.1 MB/s	DQ Read 964 DQ Write 733 DQ Mixed 912 665% 870 MB/s
Poor: 152% ↑ This bench: 250% Great: 302%
Crucial M550 256GB-$152 8,333 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 238GB free Firmware: MU02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 465 466 466 466 466 465 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 451 Write 468 Mixed 320 SusWrite 466 96% 426 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 91 4K Mixed 41.7 145% 53.8 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 236 210% 316 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 113%
Toshiba MK8032GSX 80GB-$35 363 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 58GB free Firmware: AS111G SusWrite @10s intervals: 30 29 30 30 30 30 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	17.3% Very poor	Read 30.1 Write 30.3 Mixed 21.4 SusWrite 30 21% 28 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.5 93% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 17.3% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36.7 MC Write 38.2 MC Mixed 33.4 103% 36.1 GB/s	SC Read 25.3 SC Write 41.9 SC Mixed 28.6 91% 31.9 GB/s	Latency 73.7 54% 73.7 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,918x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	826x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $115Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	606x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $296Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	460x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	176x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	319x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $497

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16