Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	8.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180314
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Dec 12 '19 at 09:38
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 238 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 691 68% 557 Pts	64-Core 677 42% 677 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.66 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	106% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 143 Parallax 133 114% 138 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 131 Splatting 106 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 462 392 187 129 94 73 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	118% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 469 Mixed 397 SusWrite 223 89% 397 MB/s	4K Read 46.7 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 64.5 221% 79.6 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 360 271% 362 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 131%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 186GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 138 137 139 142 143 139 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	72.8% Very good	Read 114 Write 112 Mixed 75.5 SusWrite 140 81% 110 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.1 221% 1.6 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 108%
WD WD10JPLX-00MBPT0 1TB 11,708 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 585GB free Firmware: 01.01H01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 124 125 127 128 128 121 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	71.4% Very good	Read 124 Write 115 Mixed 32 SusWrite 125 72% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.6 129% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2133C13 CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 16GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.8% Good	MC Read 25 MC Write 24.2 MC Mixed 19.3 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 20.8 58% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 75%

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

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	204x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	173x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	27x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $686

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