HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.6% 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	35% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180710
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 05 '19 at 00:18
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2 516 User benchmarks, average bench 82% CPU0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 93.6 1-Core 112 2-Core 176 77% 127 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 652 67% 541 Pts	64-Core 822 51% 822 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% PNY(196E 119D) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.20 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.6% Excellent	Lighting 100 Reflection 111 Parallax 105 82% 105 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 93 Splatting 98.3 79% 95.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Crucial BX500 120GB-$15 37,154 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: R013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 304 36 49 24 28 35 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	35% Below average	Read 485 Write 406 Mixed 12.5 SusWrite 79.2 54% 246 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 6.6 4K Mixed 1.1 40% 10.3 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$22 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 692GB free Firmware: HP73 SusWrite @10s intervals: 239 250 245 248 220 242 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Read 231 Write 206 Mixed 70 SusWrite 241 136% 187 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1.1 196% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 18JSF51272PZ-1G9K 8x4GB 48 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	MC Read 47.3 MC Write 45.2 MC Mixed 42.7 129% 45.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 15.9 SC Mixed 15.5 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 114%

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Workstation 11%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,499x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	772x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	685x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	495x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	304x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	261x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	183x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	56x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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