Dell XPS 8900

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	107% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell XPS 8900 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0XJ8C4
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160120
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '17 at 00:43
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	31%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 83.4 1-Core 118 2-Core 237 81% 146 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 651 66% 535 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6161) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 372.54 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60.3% Good	Lighting 75.8 Reflection 74.8 Parallax 65.4 62% 72 fps	MRender 72.4 Gravity 69.7 Splatting 69.3 58% 70.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
ST1000DM003-1ER162 500GB 30 User benchmarks, average bench 115% 282GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1075 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 435 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 50 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3483698446	107% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 480 Mixed 500 111% 496 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 43.9 176% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 45.7 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 29.6 36% 60.2 MB/s
Poor: 99% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 127%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 873GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 53386576 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 838 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1886106 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1087 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 431 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 68 303104018 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15215 (C2) HDA temperature 18 40 47244640274 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -137675176672235 (F1) Unknown 100 253 282300331 (F2) Unknown 100 253 563269718	80.5% Excellent	Read 137 Write 144 Mixed 132 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.24 95% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 883GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 60255792 (03) Spinup time 96 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3670 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 58 55 12887215647 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7674 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2320 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 80 60 336723988 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 49 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22985 (C2) HDA temperature 20 40 34359738388 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -1756641622588 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6323058216 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1576203023	77.9% Very good	Read 145 Write 127 Mixed 122 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.34 93% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8ATF51264AZ-2G1A2 8ATF51264AZ-2G1A2 859B0000802C CT4G4DFS8213.C8FAR2 859B0000802C CT4G4DFS8213.C8FAR2 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.2 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 20.5 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 74.4 54% 74.4 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 77%

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Workstation 13%

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System: Dell XPS 8900

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	2,121x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	465x
Core i5-6400Intel $77Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	172x

GPU
GTX 745 (OEM)Nvidia $60Bench 10%, 26,874 samples	509x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	348x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	237x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	71x
L8H-256V2G-11 M.2 2280 256GBLiteonBench 75%, 1,826 samples	67x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	524x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 4,057 samples	223x
M378A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 72%, 8,407 samples	159x

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Total price: $379

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16