Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.8% 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	118% 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.

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8600K-$173 264,837 User benchmarks, average bench 91% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	96.4% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 265 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 531 8-Core 782 82% 657 Pts	64-Core 784 48% 784 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 101%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.11.2 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 90.7 Parallax 155 88% 118 fps	MRender 90.2 Gravity 111 Splatting 131 93% 111 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D SATA M.2 500GB-$95 27,087 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 399GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61130WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 398 400 408 411 413 419 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	118% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 475 Mixed 264 SusWrite 408 92% 412 MB/s	4K Read 40.1 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 52.8 187% 67.8 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 274 224% 319 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 116%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 6GB free Firmware: 506ABBF0 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable		Read 172 Write 147 Mixed 173 37% 164 MB/s	4K Read 7.1 4K Write 87.5 4K Mixed 21.6 85% 38.7 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 122 102% 151 MB/s
Poor: 57% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 5GB free Firmware: CC43 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 103 Write 96.5 Mixed 60.7 64% 86.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.7 133% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 55% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury 2666 C16 2x8GB-$75 134,977 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	MC Read 33.1 MC Write 33.3 MC Mixed 24.4 86% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 34.9 SC Mixed 26.4 76% 26.5 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 97%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 55%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	685x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	476x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	353x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	752x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	390x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $39Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	321x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $578

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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