Asus PRIME B450M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.7% 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	101% 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	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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus PRIME B450M-A (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190912
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '20 at 00:00
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X-$205 635,419 User benchmarks, average bench 86% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 72.9 1-Core 154 2-Core 300 93% 176 Pts	4-Core 586 8-Core 1,054 99% 820 Pts	64-Core 1,472 91% 1,472 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% MSI(1462 375A) CLim: 2190 MHz, MLim: 3060 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 452.06 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 96.6 Parallax 96.2 84% 98.5 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 90.6 Splatting 81.3 75% 93.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDBNCE0010PNC 1TB 21,221 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 150GB free (System drive) Firmware: 401120RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 320 184 182 157 139 137 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 403 Mixed 381 SusWrite 186 82% 367 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 98.3 4K Mixed 49.8 175% 62.5 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 215 195% 299 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 117%
WD Game Drive 1TB 212 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 768GB free Firmware: 1003 SusWrite @10s intervals: 341 347 351 357 355 356 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	74.1% Very good	Read 315 Write 351 Mixed 327 SusWrite 351 76% 336 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 39.7 4K Mixed 30.2 97% 31.5 MB/s	DQ Read 209 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 221 165% 217 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BL8G32C16U4B.M8FE 2x8GB 5,535 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.6% Very good	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 20.1 MC Mixed 28.6 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 23.1 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 29.5 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 94.8 42% 94.8 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 110%

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

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Workstation 46%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A - $78

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	2,269x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,969x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	737x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	1,080x
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	649x
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia $240Bench 71%, 428,800 samples	596x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	342x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $53Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	274x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	217x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	568x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	441x
DDR4 3000 2x8GBAdataBench 80%, 77,202 samples	253x

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Value: 105% - Outstanding

Total price: $359

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16