Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 80.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	105% 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	80.3% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). 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 Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	56.6 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 19 '20 at 12:30
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	31%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	Memory 82.6 1-Core 117 2-Core 233 80% 144 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 621 65% 522 Pts	64-Core 671 42% 671 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 432.00 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 145 Parallax 132 111% 138 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 136 Splatting 107 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SA400M8240G 240GB 27,523 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 127GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK61E1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 171 142 51 103 62 56 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Read 459 Write 358 Mixed 343 SusWrite 97.6 70% 314 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 81 4K Mixed 37.2 144% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 47.4 95% 194 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 91%
GOODRAM 240GB 8,481 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 223GB free Firmware: SAFM22.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 388 421 433 434 431 428 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	99.1% Outstanding	Read 481 Write 436 Mixed 309 SusWrite 422 93% 412 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 83 4K Mixed 34.9 131% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 168 166% 262 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 102%
Seagate ST2000DX001-SSHD-8GB 2TB 1,580 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC61 SusWrite @10s intervals: 197 195 196 194 197 196 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Read 158 Write 199 Mixed 31 SusWrite 196 105% 146 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 2 364% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BL16G32C16U4BL.M16FE 4x16GB 74 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	80.4% Excellent	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 26.6 83% 29 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 31 SC Mixed 22 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 75.9 53% 75.9 ns
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 124%

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

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,689x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,436x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	612x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,144x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	863x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	809x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	339x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	240x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	761x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	323x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	158x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $685

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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