HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (96th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 4 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	93.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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 (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131118
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jun 13 '20 at 15:01
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2-$345 10,301 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 89.6 1-Core 86.1 2-Core 180 70% 119 Pts	4-Core 356 8-Core 519 55% 437 Pts	64-Core 523 32% 523 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 432.00 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 76.3 Reflection 76.8 Parallax 67.3 62% 73.4 fps	MRender 71.7 Gravity 71.5 Splatting 74.3 60% 72.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 128GB 14,793 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: H190117H SusWrite @10s intervals: 230 368 409 391 130 131 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	93.2% Outstanding	Read 453 Write 446 Mixed 397 SusWrite 276 88% 393 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 85.3 4K Mixed 43.3 155% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 216 169% 227 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 93%
Hitachi HUA722010CLA330 1TB-$38 10,195 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 854GB free Firmware: JP4OA3EA SusWrite @10s intervals: 122 131 134 134 134 132 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	76% Very good	Read 134 Write 134 Mixed 64.6 SusWrite 131 85% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.8 150% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M393B1K70DH0-YH9 2x8GB 58 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	51.1% Above average	MC Read 19.6 MC Write 17.4 MC Mixed 17.2 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 11.4 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 52%

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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	1,503x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	780x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	691x

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 $80Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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) $23	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16