Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	18.2% 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	173% 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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

High background CPU (25%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.4% Good	Memory 76.7 1-Core 95 2-Core 180 67% 117 Pts	4-Core 335 8-Core 532 53% 434 Pts	64-Core 536 33% 536 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970M 21,995 User benchmarks, average bench 31% Asus(1043 1140) 3GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 27.21.14.5167 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	18.2% Very poor	Lighting 16.8 Reflection 32.5 Parallax 31.7 14% 27 fps	MRender 28 Gravity 33.7 Splatting 35.2 27% 32.3 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 501 464 398 351 330 334 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	173% Outstanding	Read 1718 Write 786 Mixed 568 SusWrite 396 190% 867 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 40.5 180% 67.6 MB/s	DQ Read 893 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 373 329% 511 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 173% Great: 243%
Sandisk S3 2T00 2TB 7,927 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 1TB free Firmware: 411040RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 383 387 363 367 404 392 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Read 408 Write 385 Mixed 338 SusWrite 382 85% 378 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 67.3 4K Mixed 32.2 113% 41.2 MB/s	DQ Read 364 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 250 210% 304 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 118%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A1K43BB0-CPB M471A2K43BB1-CPB 24GB 101 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 16384 MB Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	65.4% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 24.8 MC Mixed 20.3 66% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 18.9 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 86.8 46% 86.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 71%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 56%

Gunboat

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	430x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	28x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	277x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	181x

SSD
CV1-8B128 128GBLiteonBench 69%, 9,472 samples	88x
NVMe MZVPV256HDGL-00000 256GBSamsungBench 201%, 5,877 samples	23x
SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $69Bench 205%, 12,601 samples	8x

RAM
M471A1K43BB0-CPB Hynix HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 12GBSamsungBench 50%, 3,179 samples	115x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 66%, 14,350 samples	91x
M471A1K43BB0-CPB 1x8GBSamsungBench 35%, 32,056 samples	74x

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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