Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 77.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% 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	272% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB 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

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	43.5 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191115
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 19 '20 at 20:20
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	77.8% Very good	Memory 84.7 1-Core 114 2-Core 192 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 615 61% 499 Pts	64-Core 614 38% 614 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 446.14 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 141 Parallax 130 106% 134 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 127 Splatting 105 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 354GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1749 811 608 617 619 617 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	272% Outstanding	Read 2,440 Write 2,241 Mixed 1,561 SusWrite 837 395% 1,770 MB/s	4K Read 60.7 4K Write 139 4K Mixed 84.6 274% 94.8 MB/s	DQ Read 927 DQ Write 757 DQ Mixed 853 636% 846 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 272% Great: 340%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 179 183 181 182 182 182 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 192 Write 151 Mixed 79.3 SusWrite 182 110% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.9 159% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1315 BLS16G4D26BFSE.16FE 1315 BLS16G4D26BFSE.16FE 48GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 16384, 16384, 16384 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	66.3% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 20.4 67% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 20.7 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 71%

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

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 49%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,048x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	377x
Core i5-6400Intel $72Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	246x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	596x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	316x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	132x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	129x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	302x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	122x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	102x

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Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $312

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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