Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	124% 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.

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 84.8 1-Core 132 2-Core 259 88% 159 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 625 69% 546 Pts	64-Core 574 36% 574 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5600-XT-$300 112,731 User benchmarks, average bench 83% PowerColor(148C 2402) Ram: 6GB, Driver: 20.4.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 101 Parallax 197 93% 137 fps	MRender 97.1 Gravity 109 Splatting 138 96% 115 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$31 9,202 User benchmarks, average bench 183% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 349 309 334 292 292 318 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	124% Outstanding	Read 648 Write 520 Mixed 417 SusWrite 315 106% 475 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 46.1 185% 69.4 MB/s	DQ Read 779 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 418 334% 482 MB/s
Poor: 119% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 243%
WD WD740GD-00FLA2 74GB 1,363 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 69GB free Firmware: 33.08F33 SusWrite @10s intervals: 69 68 68 68 68 68 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	38.5% Below average	Read 65.3 Write 70.5 Mixed 39.2 SusWrite 68.4 45% 60.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 1.2 210% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 39%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 167GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 86 86 86 85 86 87 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	58.2% Above average	Read 116 Write 111 Mixed 80.2 SusWrite 85.8 73% 98.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1 206% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown Vulcan 1600 0423 Vulcan 1600 0423 TEAMGROUP-UD3-1600 0423 TEAMGROUP-UD3-1600 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.8% Above average	MC Read 18 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 15.6 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 72 56% 72 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 52%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	168x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	142x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	116x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	65x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	60x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	26x

Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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