Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	87.3% 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	42.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 12 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 20 '20 at 20:06
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	EGY-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	69.3% Good	Memory 88.4 1-Core 77 2-Core 145 63% 103 Pts	4-Core 272 8-Core 446 44% 359 Pts	64-Core 441 27% 441 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 441.87 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 120 Parallax 106 93% 113 fps	MRender 95.8 Gravity 102 Splatting 84.8 76% 94.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX500 120GB-$15 37,154 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 139 201 39 31 28 44 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	42.1% Average	Read 496 Write 389 Mixed 24.8 SusWrite 80.2 54% 247 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 14.9 4K Mixed 0.6 48% 13.7 MB/s	DQ Read 155 DQ Write 60.7 DQ Mixed 44.9 50% 86.8 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 86%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$80 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 174GB free Firmware: 01.03A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 91 92 93 94 98 98 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	59.6% Above average	Read 113 Write 98.2 Mixed 65.2 SusWrite 94.2 68% 92.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1 185% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 58%
Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 500GB 64,410 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 415GB free Firmware: GG2OA7A0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 106 110 110 110 111 110 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.4% Good	Read 105 Write 96.5 Mixed 38 SusWrite 109 63% 87.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.5 100% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-020.A AU2G733-13GH9 99U5471-020.A AU2G733-13GH9 12GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 667, 667, 667, 667 MHz 4096, 2048, 4096, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	45.5% Average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 15.7 46% 16 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 13.4 30% 10.5 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 46%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	157x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	12x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GBCorsairBench 46%, 237 samples	9x

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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) $30	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