Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 73.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	99.8% 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	228% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	43.3 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 20:25
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	19%

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PC Performing as expected (45^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-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	73.3% Very good	Memory 85.4 1-Core 108 2-Core 178 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 331 8-Core 566 54% 449 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.3% 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 (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.8% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 141 Parallax 129 104% 133 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 120 Splatting 105 91% 111 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$84 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 354GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1433 1004 607 615 610 610 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	228% Outstanding	Read 2,208 Write 1,931 Mixed 1,504 SusWrite 813 361% 1,614 MB/s	4K Read 58.3 4K Write 73.7 4K Mixed 61.4 206% 64.5 MB/s	DQ Read 900 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 455 370% 544 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 228% Great: 340%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 179 181 180 182 183 182 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 150 Mixed 80.3 SusWrite 181 109% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 150% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 105% 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	59.7% Above average	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 18.7 60% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 18.4 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 71.7 56% 71.7 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 59.7% 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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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,049x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	377x
Core i5-6400Intel $67Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	247x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	598x
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	303x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	122x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	102x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $448

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $122	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

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