Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.98% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	170% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '19 at 03:03
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 85.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 228 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 599 62% 499 Pts	64-Core 591 37% 591 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250 25,802 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Dell(1028 2120) 2GB CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1000 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 19.12.3 Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	7.98% Terrible	Lighting 9.83 Reflection 10.8 Parallax 13.5 8% 11.4 fps	MRender 8.81 Gravity 9.37 Splatting 10.4 8% 9.54 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 7.98% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 80,540 User benchmarks, average bench 217% 342GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3L2QEXA7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 586 608 609 614 598 587 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	170% Outstanding	Read 680 Write 591 Mixed 601 SusWrite 600 139% 618 MB/s	4K Read 57.6 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 72.4 238% 79.8 MB/s	DQ Read 768 DQ Write 668 DQ Mixed 770 563% 735 MB/s
Poor: 130% ↑ This bench: 170% Great: 296%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 1TB 8,129 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 228GB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 77 77 77 75 76 75 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	41.6% Average	Read 68.7 Write 33.7 Mixed 52.8 SusWrite 76.1 43% 57.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 1.2 193% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	50.5% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 15.2 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16.1 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 71.9 56% 71.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 63%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	317x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	96x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	63x

Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $810

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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