HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	103% 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.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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.

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	25.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190613
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '20 at 01:20
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1650 0-$230 10,189 User benchmarks, average bench 73% CPU0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 85.2 1-Core 93.3 2-Core 150 66% 110 Pts	4-Core 352 8-Core 467 52% 410 Pts	64-Core 644 40% 644 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% Gigabyte(1458 37C2) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.28 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 123 Parallax 134 102% 127 fps	MRender 178 Gravity 123 Splatting 101 106% 134 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme INTEL SSDPEDMX02 2TB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 167% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0253 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 757 836 1084 1311 1382 1218 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	138% Outstanding	Read 346 Write 1,174 Mixed 452 SusWrite 1,098 176% 767 MB/s	4K Read 16 4K Write 87.3 4K Mixed 25.7 103% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 578 DQ Write 572 DQ Mixed 597 442% 582 MB/s
Poor: 92% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 246%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 526GB free (System drive) Firmware: DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 914 501 402 386 259 244 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 78% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: HP33 SusWrite @10s intervals: 151 153 151 154 153 154 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 137 Mixed 89 SusWrite 153 100% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.8 140% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 347GB free Firmware: HP33 SusWrite @10s intervals: 105 110 110 108 110 112 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	65.1% Good	Read 118 Write 91.2 Mixed 67 SusWrite 109 71% 96.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.6 118% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GB 244 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	85.9% Excellent	MC Read 34.2 MC Write 34.6 MC Mixed 32.1 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 12.4 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 96%

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

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,512x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	785x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	696x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	497x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	307x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	261x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	184x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	57x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $373

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	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