Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 79.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12.2% 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	75% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac) (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180418
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 28 '20 at 11:41
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	79.1% Very good	Memory 84.7 1-Core 132 2-Core 254 87% 157 Pts	4-Core 396 8-Core 645 64% 521 Pts	64-Core 670 41% 670 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Gigabyte(1458 3001) CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 20.10.00.17 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	12.2% Very poor	Lighting 0.03 Reflection 35.8 Parallax 67.6 0% 34.5 fps	MRender 30.3 Gravity 55 Splatting 44.2 36% 43.2 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 12.2% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD8SN8U-256G-1006 256GB 12,432 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 109GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4120006 SusWrite @10s intervals: 207 189 174 178 172 177 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	75% Very good	Read 482 Write 250 Mixed 266 SusWrite 183 66% 295 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 49.3 4K Mixed 28.5 103% 34.9 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 205 176% 259 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 92%
CT500MX500SSD4 500GB 44,418 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 405GB free Firmware: M3CR022 SusWrite @10s intervals: 328 323 329 329 330 329 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	78.9% Very good	Read 340 Write 317 Mixed 312 SusWrite 328 73% 324 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 52.6 4K Mixed 36.4 116% 38.9 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 192 145% 195 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 123%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CML8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	28.7% Poor	MC Read 9.4 MC Write 9.3 MC Mixed 8 26% 8.9 GB/s	SC Read 8.9 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 9.2 27% 9.33 GB/s	Latency 72.2 55% 72.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 28.7% Great: 51%

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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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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	583x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	132x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	87x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	141x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $688

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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