Dell Precision M6500

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 55% Yacht	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 56.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	7.05% 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	23.4% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Dell Precision M6500 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell
Memory	8.9 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130604
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '17 at 00:16
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7 X 940-$150 592 User benchmarks, average bench 60% Microprocessor, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.15 GHz, turbo 2.15 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	56.3% Above average	Memory 82.7 1-Core 57.1 2-Core 103 52% 80.9 Pts	4-Core 165 8-Core 242 25% 204 Pts	64-Core 260 16% 260 Pts
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 70%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5870 3,040 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Dell(1028 12EF) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	7.05% Terrible	Lighting 9.37 Reflection 6.85 Parallax 7.69 8% 7.97 fps	MRender 6.48 Gravity 6.7 Splatting 8.09 6% 7.09 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.05% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung PM800 Series 2.5" 256GB 1,200 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 87GB free Firmware: VBM1AD1Q Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33590 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3497 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (B2) Unknown 83 83 21 (B3) Unknown 97 97 190 (B4) Unknown 97 97 7746 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E8) Unknown 83 83 103 (E9) Unknown 99 99 4199987	27.8% Poor	Read 216 Write 179 Mixed 187 43% 194 MB/s	4K Read 12.5 4K Write 6.87 4K Mixed 4.54 28% 7.98 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 27.8% Great: 34%
Samsung PM800 Series 2.5" 256GB 1,200 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 80GB free (System drive) Firmware: VBM1AD1Q Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33618 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3496 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 95 95 290 (B2) Unknown 87 87 16 (B3) Unknown 98 98 138 (B4) Unknown 98 98 7798 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E8) Unknown 87 87 108 (E9) Unknown 45 45 2345580446	23.4% Poor	Read 211 Write 99.1 Mixed 98.7 30% 136 MB/s	4K Read 12.2 4K Write 6.76 4K Mixed 6.22 30% 8.39 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 23.4% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown M471B5273CH0-CH9 80CE000080CE M471B5273CH0-CH9 80AD000080AD HMT125S6BFR8C-H9 80AD000080AD HMT125S6BFR8C-H9 12GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	40% Average	MC Read 14.8 MC Write 13.4 MC Mixed 12.7 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 11.9 SC Mixed 11 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 75.8 53% 75.8 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 41%

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Gaming 7%

Tree trunk

Desktop 53%

Yacht

Workstation 6%

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System: Dell Precision M6500

CPU
Core i7 Q 820Intel $119Bench 52%, 2,269 samples	39x
Core i7 Q 720Intel $220Bench 51%, 13,149 samples	31x
Core i7 Q 740Intel $190Bench 54%, 13,278 samples	28x

GPU
Quadro FX 2800MNvidiaBench 5%, 1,135 samples	81x
FirePro M7740ATIBench 7%, 225 samples	46x
Quadro FX 3800MNvidiaBench 7%, 388 samples	28x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x
MZ7TE256HMHP-000L7 256GBSamsungBench 70%, 4,594 samples	7x
PM800 Series 2.5" 256GBSamsungBench 24%, 1,200 samples	5x

RAM
EBJ21UE8BDS0-DJ-F 4x2GBUnknownBench 38%, 37 samples	6x
M471B5273CH0-CH9 4x4GBSamsungBench 44%, 427 samples	6x
M471B5773CHS-CH9 4x2GBSamsungBench 45%, 318 samples	5x

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Value: 42% - Average

Total price: $219

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $95	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16