Asus PRIME B450M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	16.5% 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	80.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B450M-A (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180824
Uptime	1.8 Days
Run Date	Nov 18 '19 at 18:34
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G-$104 181,631 User benchmarks, average bench 60% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 74.8 1-Core 110 2-Core 222 75% 136 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 453 61% 453 Pts	64-Core 453 28% 453 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 570-$130 473,685 User benchmarks, average bench 45% Gigabyte(1458 22F0) CLim: 1280 MHz, MLim: 1750 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 19.10.2 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	16.5% Very poor	Lighting 0.03 Reflection 65.8 Parallax 77.2 0% 47.7 fps	MRender 64.6 Gravity 62.1 Splatting 53.9 49% 60.2 fps
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 16.5% Great: 49%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SSD 240GB 38,401 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM61.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 61 8.2 240 118 113 33 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	Read 467 Write 125 Mixed 338 SusWrite 95.4 57% 256 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 76.7 4K Mixed 37.1 141% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 199 171% 250 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 95%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 1TB 18,390 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 494GB free Firmware: 0109 SusWrite @10s intervals: 117 119 109 118 118 118 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	54.3% Above average	Read 71.8 Write 138 Mixed 109 SusWrite 116 81% 109 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 3.2 4K Mixed 0.8 202% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 3000 C16 Series 2x4GB 1,631 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing below potential (45^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	77.7% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 26.7 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 21.4 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 90.8 44% 90.8 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 104%

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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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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A - $78

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	2,264x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,965x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	737x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	1,080x
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	648x
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia $233Bench 71%, 428,800 samples	595x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	340x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $35Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	274x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	217x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	567x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	439x
DDR4 3000 2x8GBAdataBench 80%, 77,202 samples	253x

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Total price: $364

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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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