Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	100% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	182% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT (all builds)
Memory	9.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150919
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 05 '20 at 17:12
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 126 2-Core 247 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 501 8-Core 497 67% 499 Pts	64-Core 488 30% 488 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon-VII-$841 13,762 User benchmarks, average bench 101% AMD(1002 081E) Ram: 16GB, Driver: 20.4.1 Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	100% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 91.5 Parallax 196 96% 135 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 145 Splatting 140 107% 129 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 106%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 258GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 566 620 617 631 615 610 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	182% Outstanding	Read 734 Write 671 Mixed 667 SusWrite 610 151% 671 MB/s	4K Read 62.9 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 78.9 263% 89.2 MB/s	DQ Read 783 DQ Write 708 DQ Mixed 920 642% 804 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 182% Great: 340%
Crucial P1 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$73 171,271 User benchmarks, average bench 212% 111GB free Firmware: P3CR010 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1228 492 48 101 101 101 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	206% Outstanding	Read 1,527 Write 1,518 Mixed 1,121 SusWrite 345 252% 1,128 MB/s	4K Read 60.6 4K Write 166 4K Mixed 81.6 284% 103 MB/s	DQ Read 682 DQ Write 943 DQ Mixed 275 358% 633 MB/s
Poor: 130% ↑ This bench: 206% Great: 295%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL10-11-11 D3-2133 2x8GB 79 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.8% Excellent	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 30.1 MC Mixed 26.3 81% 28.4 GB/s	SC Read 19.8 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 24.4 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 83%

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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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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 54%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT - $300

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	90x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	32x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	18x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	17x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	14x

SSD
EX900 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GBHP $33Bench 139%, 2,425 samples	11x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
S650 240GBHPBench 75%, 488 samples	7x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 993 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GBKingstonBench 57%, 3,744 samples	7x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	6x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $813

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $250	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