Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	78.8% 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	53.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	9.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '17 at 21:20
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$233 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 93.9 1-Core 151 2-Core 293 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 829 81% 663 Pts	64-Core 797 49% 797 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 8546) CLim: 1461 MHz, MLim: 1824 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.8% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 102 Parallax 92.6 83% 98.9 fps	MRender 88 Gravity 90 Splatting 81.5 70% 86.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR021 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1853 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 321 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 41 (AE) Unknown 100 100 114 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201864445988 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 9547049256 (F7) Unknown 100 100 299767105 (F8) Unknown 100 100 236667496 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1256 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	53.8% Above average	Read 481 Write 101 Mixed 155 53% 246 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 75 4K Mixed 9.41 83% 35 MB/s	DQ Read 113 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 10.7 35% 76.2 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 95%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$26 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 120GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 71 (03) Spinup time 132 132 12895846580 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 295 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1884 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 274 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 296 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 296 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 176094773284 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	84.3% Excellent	Read 151 Write 143 Mixed 115 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.21 78% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK32GX4M4A2400C16 Kingston KHX2400C15/8G 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2436, 2436 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	80.7% Excellent	MC Read 30 MC Write 31 MC Mixed 23.7 81% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 32.3 SC Mixed 24.9 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 60.1 66% 60.1 ns
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 75%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $233Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,769x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,458x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	630x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,162x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	878x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	822x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	378x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	348x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	242x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	776x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	332x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	161x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $814

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Intel Core i5-13600K $245	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $359