Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.7% 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	49.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

4 years ago, 3 years ago.

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	74% Very good	Memory 85.6 1-Core 77.4 2-Core 158 64% 107 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 545 54% 441 Pts	64-Core 531 33% 531 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M 10,379 User benchmarks, average bench 39% Asus(1043 108E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1126 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.66 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	14.7% Very poor	Lighting 15.9 Reflection 27.7 Parallax 16.4 13% 20 fps	MRender 21.8 Gravity 14.3 Splatting 27.7 18% 21.3 fps
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 14.7% Great: 43%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD8SNAT256G1002 256GB 1,944 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 199GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z2317002 SusWrite @10s intervals: 212 237 240 198 171 200 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	49.5% Average	Read 480 Write 276 Mixed 177 SusWrite 210 63% 286 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 19.8 4K Mixed 9.5 50% 15.9 MB/s	DQ Read 95.5 DQ Write 22.9 DQ Mixed 34 32% 50.8 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 75%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 906GB free Firmware: JB0OA3J0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 129 134 134 133 133 132 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	Read 131 Write 127 Mixed 27 SusWrite 132 76% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.5 118% 1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GB 55,289 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 24.1 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 22 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 76%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 29%

Raft

Desktop 67%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 25%

Surfboard

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	89x

GPU
GeForce GTX 980MNvidiaBench 39%, 10,379 samples	89x

SSD
MZNLF128HCHP-00004 128GBSamsungBench 43%, 7,448 samples	17x
SD8SNAT256G1002 256GBSandiskBench 63%, 1,944 samples	9x
NVMe MZVPV256HDGL-00000 256GBSamsungBench 201%, 5,877 samples	9x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	26x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 66%, 14,350 samples	13x
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 38%, 45,898 samples	8x

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