Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	96.9% 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	202% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

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 Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	82.4% Excellent	Memory 90.8 1-Core 125 2-Core 225 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 647 64% 523 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1999 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 441.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 126 Parallax 124 102% 125 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 111 Splatting 103 87% 107 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 114GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 749 755 732 697 675 646 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	202% Outstanding	Read 1,717 Write 881 Mixed 676 SusWrite 709 220% 996 MB/s	4K Read 39.1 4K Write 142 4K Mixed 47.6 196% 76.3 MB/s	DQ Read 1086 DQ Write 304 DQ Mixed 386 365% 592 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 202% Great: 243%
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 183GB free Firmware: SBFK61K1 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 392 Write 200 Mixed 271 64% 288 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 11.9 4K Mixed 12.6 57% 15.7 MB/s	DQ Read 116 DQ Write 12.2 DQ Mixed 21.5 26% 50 MB/s
Poor: 33% Great: 100%
SMI USB DISK 8GB 3,022 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 7GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 3.2 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 18 14 11 14 13 15 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	22.7% Poor	Read 104 Write 11.8 Mixed 26.8 SusWrite 14.3 38% 39.4 MB/s	4K Read 4.4 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 1.8 115% 2.43 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 22.7% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D240FSE.16FBD BLS16G4D240FSE.16FAD 32GB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2400, 2400 MHz 16384, 16384 MB Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	78.9% Very good	MC Read 28.6 MC Write 29.7 MC Mixed 25.2 80% 27.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 31.6 SC Mixed 24.1 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 66 61% 66 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 83%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

Speed boat

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	46x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	30x

Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $521

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