Alienware m15

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 67.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	62.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	166% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Alienware m15 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0DH3P0
Memory	22.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190830
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 12 '19 at 02:21
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-8950HK 14,729 User benchmarks, average bench 74% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 2.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	67.5% Good	Memory 84 1-Core 80.1 2-Core 162 64% 109 Pts	4-Core 277 8-Core 413 43% 345 Pts	64-Core 629 39% 629 Pts
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2080 (Mobile Max-Q) 7,789 User benchmarks, average bench 90% Dell(1028 08A1) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3153 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	62.7% Good	Lighting 90.4 Reflection 59.7 Parallax 56.5 74% 68.9 fps	MRender 65.6 Gravity 46.3 Splatting 43.9 42% 51.9 fps
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 102%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Pc401 NVMe SK hynix 512GB 10,182 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 284GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80006E00 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 591 604 450 438 596 595 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	166% Outstanding	Read 1,371 Write 1,176 Mixed 1242 SusWrite 546 243% 1,084 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 76.2 4K Mixed 48.9 156% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 734 DQ Write 568 DQ Mixed 663 492% 655 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 166% Great: 215%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 1TB-$56 127,507 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 841GB free Firmware: SDM3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 113 113 117 113 121 123 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	68.7% Good	Read 121 Write 120 Mixed 65.7 SusWrite 117 78% 106 MB/s	4K Read 2.6 4K Write 3.9 4K Mixed 2.2 425% 2.9 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16ATF2G64HZ-2G6E1 2x16GB 7,078 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	80.4% Excellent	MC Read 31.4 MC Write 33.4 MC Mixed 25.2 86% 30 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 19.7 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 89%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 12%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 11%

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System: Alienware m15

CPU
Core i7-8750HIntelBench 70%, 442,631 samples	431x
Core i7-9750HIntelBench 73%, 328,182 samples	183x
Core i9-8950HKIntelBench 74%, 14,729 samples	30x

GPU
UHD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 506,702 samples	329x
RTX 2060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 71%, 119,687 samples	107x
GTX 1060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 47%, 177,775 samples	57x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	49x
NVMe SK hynix 512GBPc401Bench 146%, 10,182 samples	32x
PC401 SK hy 512GBNvmeBench 145%, 2,079 samples	22x

RAM
HMA81GS6JJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 74%, 13,906 samples	114x
HMA81GS6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 75%, 18,486 samples	79x
KHYXPX-MIE 2x8GBUnknownBench 76%, 5,852 samples	52x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16