Asus PRIME B450M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	81.1% 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	282% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B450M-A (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200728
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 26 '20 at 16:06
Run Duration	227 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 3800XT-$398 13,898 User benchmarks, average bench 88% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 70.1 1-Core 149 2-Core 299 91% 173 Pts	4-Core 598 8-Core 1,103 102% 850 Pts	64-Core 1,501 93% 1,501 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 98%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% EVGA(3842 1266) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2175 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.38 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 91.6 Parallax 84.4 85% 93.6 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 88.8 Splatting 79.2 73% 90.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 364GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 805 600 630 617 609 603 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	282% Outstanding	Read 2,542 Write 2,388 Mixed 1,664 SusWrite 644 404% 1,810 MB/s	4K Read 65.8 4K Write 161 4K Mixed 89.3 300% 106 MB/s	DQ Read 1,152 DQ Write 1,012 DQ Mixed 1,083 812% 1,082 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 282% Great: 340%
Crucial MX500 1TB-$66 202,785 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 534GB free Firmware: M3CR023 SusWrite @10s intervals: 470 471 471 468 471 468 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	122% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 470 Mixed 430 SusWrite 470 106% 471 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 54.2 181% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 389 DQ Write 361 DQ Mixed 301 246% 350 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 125%
Asmt ASM105x 4TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 167 167 167 169 166 168 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	23.1% Poor	Read 182 Write 162 Mixed 104 SusWrite 167 35% 154 MB/s	4K Read 8 4K Write 11 4K Mixed 1 19% 6.67 MB/s	DQ Read 1.4 DQ Write 12.5 DQ Mixed 1.7 3% 5.2 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 23.1% Great: 70%
WDC WD40 EFRX-68N32N0 4TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 3TB free, PID 2338 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 39 40 40 40 40 39 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	23.4% Poor	Read 38.4 Write 38.2 Mixed 32.6 SusWrite 39.7 51% 37.2 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1.1 140% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 23.4% Great: 23%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3600 C15 2x8GB 6,416 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.1% Good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 27.1 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 17.9 SC Mixed 25.3 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 101 40% 101 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 134%

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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 46%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A - $78

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	2,263x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,965x
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	648x
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia $233Bench 71%, 428,800 samples	595x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	340x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $35Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	274x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	217x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	567x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	439x
DDR4 3000 2x8GBAdataBench 80%, 77,202 samples	252x

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Value: 103% - Outstanding

Total price: $364

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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