Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 87%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	158% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	26.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170210
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 04 '17 at 00:54
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 128 2-Core 254 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 447 8-Core 683 70% 565 Pts	64-Core 696 43% 696 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 90%

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: 378.92 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 146 Parallax 122 111% 135 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 127 Splatting 105 93% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme PC300 SK hy 512GB 3,574 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 383GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2000 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	158% Outstanding	Read 1,366 Write 733 Mixed 990 228% 1,029 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 18.8 136% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 503 DQ Write 385 DQ Mixed 25.7 133% 305 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 158% Great: 167%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 482GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 125995486 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1205 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4415669 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1758 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 346 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 62 555221017 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1208 (C2) HDA temperature 25 13 55834574873 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 125995486 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -10531259808253 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3075749963 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2368720660	88.1% Excellent	Read 170 Write 137 Mixed 143 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.29 94% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 4x8GB 2,656 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	74.7% Very good	MC Read 25.9 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.5 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 25.6 70% 24.6 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 115%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 49%

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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 $68Bench 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 $120	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) $39	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