Alienware Area-51m

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	75.6% 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	207% 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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51m (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware Area-51m
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190905
Uptime	14.7 Days
Run Date	Mar 26 '20 at 13:50
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-9700-$260 79,875 User benchmarks, average bench 92% U3E1, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	98.4% Outstanding	Memory 91 1-Core 139 2-Core 256 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 566 8-Core 1,138 100% 852 Pts	64-Core 1,124 70% 1,124 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 99%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060 (Mobile) 119,687 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Dell(1028 08C5) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 442.74 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Lighting 92.1 Reflection 101 Parallax 98.7 75% 97.4 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 82.2 Splatting 77.9 76% 96.3 fps
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 512GB 18,578 User benchmarks, average bench 191% 212GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0.00 SusWrite @10s intervals: 844 681 670 602 575 561 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	207% Outstanding	Read 1760 Write 1,113 Mixed 640 SusWrite 656 231% 1,042 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 97.6 4K Mixed 45.9 165% 59.9 MB/s	DQ Read 1,026 DQ Write 1,035 DQ Mixed 817 673% 959 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 207% Great: 332%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 1TB-$56 127,507 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 931GB free Firmware: SDM3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 126 128 127 128 127 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	67.5% Good	Read 109 Write 58.2 Mixed 107 SusWrite 125 75% 99.9 MB/s	4K Read 1.5 4K Write 4.1 4K Mixed 3.1 483% 2.9 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown KHYXPX-MIE 2x8GB 5,852 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	MC Read 29.7 MC Write 30.5 MC Mixed 22 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 28.9 SC Mixed 24.1 66% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 84%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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System: Alienware Area-51m

CPU
Core i9-9900KIntel $410Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	217x
Core i7-9700KIntel $252Bench 97%, 550,833 samples	186x
Core i7-9700Intel $260Bench 92%, 79,875 samples	100x

GPU
RTX 2080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 112%, 4,380 samples	204x
GeForce RTX 2070NvidiaBench 89%, 5,557 samples	94x
RTX 2070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 88%, 23,316 samples	81x

SSD
Raid 0 Volume 512GBIntelBench 191%, 18,578 samples	40x
Raid 0 Volume 1TBIntelBench 242%, 17,176 samples	38x
NVMe SK hynix 512GBPc400Bench 186%, 2,374 samples	19x

RAM
HMA82GS6JJR8N-VK 2x16GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,839 samples	46x
HMA81GS6JJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 74%, 13,906 samples	24x
16ATF2G64HZ-2G6E1 2x16GBUnknownBench 79%, 7,078 samples	24x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $410

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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