Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	18.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	Memory 83.8 1-Core 91 2-Core 176 68% 117 Pts	4-Core 322 8-Core 469 50% 396 Pts	64-Core 529 33% 529 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960M 73,363 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Dell(1028 0706) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.4587 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	18.1% Very poor	Lighting 22.9 Reflection 17.2 Parallax 19.7 19% 19.9 fps	MRender 24.9 Gravity 22.1 Splatting 17 17% 21.3 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 18.1% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDS500G2B0B-00YS70 500GB 43,498 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 302GB free Firmware: 411040WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 125 134 131 130 134 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	38.8% Below average	Read 303 Write 119 Mixed 178 SusWrite 129 40% 182 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 6.4 4K Mixed 12 64% 16.2 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 114%
Toshiba Notebook SSHD 2.5" 1TB 27,655 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 423GB free (System drive) Firmware: HEF01D SusWrite @10s intervals: 78 75 77 81 80 80 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	47.1% Average	Read 80 Write 80.3 Mixed 33 SusWrite 78.4 50% 67.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 18.5 4K Mixed 1.7 552% 6.9 MB/s	DQ Read 2 DQ Write 21.7 DQ Mixed 8 85% 10.6 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 64%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 014F TS1GSK64W6H 16GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	59% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 17.8 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 22.7 SC Mixed 19.6 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 73.8 54% 73.8 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 59%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 6%

Tree trunk

Desktop 55%

Yacht

Workstation 5%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	2,210x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	736x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	1,849x
GTX 960MNvidiaBench 16%, 73,363 samples	1,095x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	1x

SSD
Z400s M.2 2280 256GBSandiskBench 65%, 2,644 samples	164x
860 EVO M.2 500GBSamsungBench 101%, 35,237 samples	86x
CM871 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 45%, 3,215 samples	77x

RAM
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 1x8GBHynixBench 28%, 77,702 samples	339x
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 52%, 34,976 samples	254x
KN2M64-ETB 1x8GBUnknownBench 27%, 1,673 samples	156x

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	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