Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	23.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	75.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (73%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191127
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 30 '20 at 11:53
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	73%

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PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X-$515 50,170 User benchmarks, average bench 89% AM4, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	72.6% Very good	Memory 60.1 1-Core 119 2-Core 244 74% 141 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 854 78% 655 Pts	64-Core 2,052 127% 2,052 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 97%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-$143 230,793 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Gigabyte(1458 3FC8) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 451.67 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	23.4% Poor	Lighting 40.2 Reflection 7.31 Parallax 5.72 33% 17.7 fps	MRender 5.81 Gravity 6.87 Splatting 6.43 5% 6.37 fps
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 23.4% Great: 73%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 177GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT04B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 350 332 288 281 270 289 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	Read 323 Write 317 Mixed 244 SusWrite 302 67% 296 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 52.7 4K Mixed 26.4 92% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 352 DQ Mixed 268 228% 333 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 128%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 418GB free Firmware: SC13 SusWrite @10s intervals: 103 105 102 104 101 99 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	58.2% Above average	Read 100 Write 99.2 Mixed 53.6 SusWrite 102 65% 88.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.7 126% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 60%
WD My Passport 25F3 256GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 61GB free Firmware: 1012 SusWrite @10s intervals: 37 37 36 36 36 36 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	23.2% Poor	Read 40 Write 36.6 Mixed 36.8 SusWrite 36.3 28% 37.4 MB/s	4K Read 6.5 4K Write 8 4K Mixed 7.8 1,286% 7.43 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 23.2% Great: 23%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR4 3200 2x8GB 87,891 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	60.5% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 24 MC Mixed 21.5 66% 23.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.7 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 14.5 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 127 31% 127 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 112%

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

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $149Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	458x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	175x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	317x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $525

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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