Asus PRIME B550M-A (WI-FI)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.2% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B550M-A (WI-FI) (all builds)
Memory	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200513
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Oct 17 '20 at 23:56
Run Duration	106 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing below expectations (38^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 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 67.5 1-Core 144 2-Core 274 86% 162 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 861 83% 683 Pts	64-Core 1,290 80% 1,290 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5600-XT-$300 112,731 User benchmarks, average bench 83% XFX(1682 5710) Ram: 6GB, Driver: 20.9.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 110 Reflection 94.8 Parallax 172 90% 126 fps	MRender 89.9 Gravity 102 Splatting 133 91% 108 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 87%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: 03.01A03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 61 79 86 68 92 91 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	68.6% Good	Read 159 Write 166 Mixed 91.5 SusWrite 79.7 91% 124 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 1 209% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$56 346,786 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	63.7% Good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 17.9 MC Mixed 25 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 17.5 SC Mixed 22.2 56% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 107 37% 107 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 110%

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

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Gaming 99%

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Desktop 101%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B550M-A (WI-FI)

CPU
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $153Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	843x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	587x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	408x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	309x
RTX 3060-TiNvidia $340Bench 128%, 442,467 samples	293x
RTX 3070Nvidia $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	246x

SSD
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBWD $74Bench 228%, 180,890 samples	145x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	106x
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBWD $68Bench 204%, 97,624 samples	101x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	143x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	103x
Group Inc. TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBTeamBench 88%, 35,395 samples	101x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $551

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