Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.7% 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	70.8% 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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 0 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190306
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '20 at 00:08
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600-$125 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 86.9 1-Core 123 2-Core 244 84% 151 Pts	4-Core 465 8-Core 700 72% 582 Pts	64-Core 1,008 62% 1,008 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-56-$170 92,053 User benchmarks, average bench 78% Sapphire(1DA2 E376) CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 815 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.4.1 Performing below potential (48^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.7% Very good	Lighting 89.3 Reflection 85.8 Parallax 140 73% 105 fps	MRender 85.1 Gravity 95.2 Splatting 121 84% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 85%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDS500G3XHC-00SJG0 500GB 11,656 User benchmarks, average bench 246% 265GB free Firmware: 102000WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 1218 835 837 842 840 840 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	248% Outstanding	Read 2,006 Write 2090 Mixed 1698 SusWrite 902 376% 1,674 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 67.7 234% 86.8 MB/s	DQ Read 968 DQ Write 822 DQ Mixed 920 682% 903 MB/s
Poor: 184% ↑ This bench: 248% Great: 288%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: R211 SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 114 111 117 107 111 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Read 412 Write 135 Mixed 185 SusWrite 113 46% 211 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 75 4K Mixed 34.1 132% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 123 101% 145 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 759GB free Firmware: CC24 SusWrite @10s intervals: 154 153 157 156 155 156 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Read 154 Write 117 Mixed 72.8 SusWrite 155 91% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.7 136% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C15 2x8GB-$60 93,353 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.3% Above average	MC Read 19.5 MC Write 17 MC Mixed 16.9 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 17.4 SC Mixed 16.6 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 104%

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

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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 $84Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,916x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $150Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	603x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	458x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	404x

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 $63Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	290x

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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 $182	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) $30	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