Asus PRIME B450M-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding HDD
Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	100% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	85.9% 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	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

1 month ago, 1 month ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B450M-A (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191113
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 01 '19 at 23:52
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X-$137 140,571 User benchmarks, average bench 79% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	1-Core 120 2-Core 239 84% 180 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 773 79% 622 Pts	64-Core 992 67% 992 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$410 59,311 User benchmarks, average bench 106% AMD(1002 0B36) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.11.3 Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Lighting 389 Reflection 287 Parallax 702 102% 460 fps	MRender 229 Gravity 376 Splatting 342 100% 316 fps
Poor: 100% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 113%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 7,599 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 SusWrite @10s intervals: 222 67 61 83 93 87 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Read 509 Write 465 Mixed 368 SusWrite 102 81% 361 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 84.4 4K Mixed 39.2 143% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 320 DQ Write 369 DQ Mixed 182 182% 291 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 93%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$38 53,058 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 112GB free Firmware: 0C3FD6SD SusWrite @10s intervals: 229 65 58 57 57 57 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Read 494 Write 369 Mixed 352 SusWrite 87.2 72% 326 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 82.9 4K Mixed 39.3 141% 50.9 MB/s	DQ Read 304 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 114 132% 228 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 81%
Sandisk S3 1T02 1TB 1,110 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 945GB free Firmware: 40101000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 376 478 483 482 484 451 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 482 Mixed 417 SusWrite 459 105% 466 MB/s	4K Read 40.3 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 52.9 184% 65.9 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 255 219% 322 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 120%
WD My Book 25EE 3TB 1,143 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1.5TB free, PID 25ee Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 100 100 100 100 99 100 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	Read 162 Write 170 Mixed 122 SusWrite 99.6 184% 138 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 123% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GB 2,578 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	76.8% Very good	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 25.5 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 21.9 SC Write 28.5 SC Mixed 24.4 71% 24.9 GB/s	Latency 83.8 48% 83.8 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 96%

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

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Desktop 64%

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Workstation 55%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A - $78

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $112Bench 75%, 307,342 samples	5,176x
Ryzen 3 2200GAMD $85Bench 68%, 81,270 samples	1,427x
Ryzen 5 2600XAMD $137Bench 79%, 140,571 samples	1,391x

GPU
RX 580AMD $159Bench 57%, 334,484 samples	2,669x
RX 570AMD $120Bench 49%, 141,916 samples	1,125x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $270Bench 57%, 746,202 samples	844x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $32Bench 63%, 106,407 samples	874x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $78Bench 107%, 237,869 samples	531x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $38Bench 46%, 42,663 samples	509x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $63Bench 84%, 276,679 samples	1,347x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $80Bench 86%, 178,898 samples	441x
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $63Bench 86%, 63,765 samples	399x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $444

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9600K $205	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-9400F $150	Nvidia GTX 1650S (Super) $160	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i7-9700K $375	Nvidia RTX 2060 $349	Samsung 850 Pro 512GB $249

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $80	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $63	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $613	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $14