Asus PRIME B450M-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	106% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (79%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B450M-A (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191113
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 28 '20 at 11:58
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	79%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 2700-$185 123,820 User benchmarks, average bench 74% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	Memory 75.5 1-Core 97 2-Core 181 68% 118 Pts	4-Core 363 8-Core 590 58% 476 Pts	64-Core 1,058 66% 1,058 Pts
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070S (Super)-$210 663,603 User benchmarks, average bench 115% Asus(1043 8728) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 446.14 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	106% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 129 Parallax 139 114% 136 fps	MRender 156 Gravity 110 Splatting 95.1 96% 120 fps
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 123%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 452GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 128 119 129 134 139 141 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 186 Mixed 80.7 SusWrite 132 106% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.9 157% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 113%
Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 16GB-$7 60,636 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 5GB free, PID 1666 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 3.4 5 4.9 5.3 5.2 5.1 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	22.4% Poor	Read 129 Write 0.5 Mixed 5.3 SusWrite 4.8 25% 34.8 MB/s	4K Read 11.4 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 42% 3.8 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 22.4% Great: 23%
hp v150w 16GB 376 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 13GB free, PID 2d40 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 5.4 6.5 6.5 6.4 7 6.5 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	5.09% Terrible	Read 16.7 Write 3.7 Mixed 4.5 SusWrite 6.3 9% 7.8 MB/s	4K Read 5.5 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 20% 1.83 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.09% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4X8GF2400C16K4 CMK8GX4M1A2400C16 16GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (32^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.3% Good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 25.7 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 19.1 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 89.4 45% 89.4 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 89%

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

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Workstation 46%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A - $78

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	2,262x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,965x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	736x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	1,080x
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	648x
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia $233Bench 71%, 428,800 samples	595x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	340x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $35Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	273x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	217x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	567x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	439x
DDR4 3000 2x8GBAdataBench 80%, 77,202 samples	252x

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Value: 103% - Outstanding

Total price: $364

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	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