Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (93rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 7 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 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.6% 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	268% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6920HQ 3,282 User benchmarks, average bench 70% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 86.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 217 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 602 65% 516 Pts	64-Core 598 37% 598 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 282 User benchmarks, average bench 73% MSI(1462 1171) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1164 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Lighting 130 Reflection 72.2 Parallax 72.7 106% 91.5 fps	MRender 73.3 Gravity 64.3 Splatting 58 53% 65.2 fps
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 85%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme ADATA SX8200PNP 256GB 1,186 User benchmarks, average bench 206% 209GB free (System drive) Firmware: 328D Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 909 1014 647 266 265 265 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	268% Outstanding	Read 2,448 Write 1073 Mixed 110 SusWrite 561 228% 1,048 MB/s	4K Read 68.2 4K Write 176 4K Mixed 89.8 312% 111 MB/s	DQ Read 827 DQ Write 923 DQ Mixed 482 471% 744 MB/s
Poor: 140% ↑ This bench: 268% Great: 255%
Crucial MX200 SATA M.2 250GB-$90 2,162 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 175GB free Firmware: MU01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 411 429 432 456 376 304 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 432 Write 412 Mixed 356 SusWrite 401 90% 400 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 46.7 167% 63.2 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 309 DQ Mixed 242 206% 302 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 112%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2004)-$47 218,164 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 730GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 106 106 107 107 107 107 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.7% Good	Read 108 Write 105 Mixed 56.8 SusWrite 107 69% 94.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.7 139% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB 2,917 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 24.3 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 29.8 SC Mixed 23.7 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 71.2 56% 71.2 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 107%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

Raft

GPU
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	31x
GeForce GTX 980NvidiaBench 73%, 282 samples	19x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	10x

SSD
Raid 0 Volume 256GBIntelBench 120%, 13,747 samples	15x
THNSN5256GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 148%, 19,151 samples	8x
Raid 0 Volume 512GBIntelBench 191%, 18,578 samples	6x

RAM
M471A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 70%, 20,956 samples	8x
M471A2K43BB1-CPB 4x16GBSamsungBench 71%, 938 samples	5x
M471A2K43BB1-CPB 2x16GBSamsungBench 70%, 4,393 samples	4x

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