Asus PRIME Z370-A II

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (33rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 67 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	96.1% 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	160% 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.

Very high background CPU (90%). 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, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z370-A II (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190424
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Dec 20 '20 at 21:09
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	90%

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PC Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-9400F-$98 299,482 User benchmarks, average bench 85% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 230 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 651 68% 545 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$199 254,908 User benchmarks, average bench 98% AMD(1002 0B36) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.12.1 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	96.1% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 142 Parallax 164 100% 143 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 116 Splatting 95.2 88% 110 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Pcie SSD 1TB 40,637 User benchmarks, average bench 210% 217GB free (System drive) Firmware: ECFM22.6 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 758 951 892 901 815 872 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	160% Outstanding	Read 832 Write 1,097 Mixed 913 SusWrite 865 210% 927 MB/s	4K Read 16.8 4K Write 48.2 4K Mixed 22.3 80% 29.1 MB/s	DQ Read 1222 DQ Write 1,003 DQ Mixed 1,130 842% 1,118 MB/s
Poor: 112% ↑ This bench: 160% Great: 284%
PNY CS1311 480GB-$31 13,149 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 368GB free Firmware: CS131122 SusWrite @10s intervals: 311 407 204 180 175 175 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	66.9% Good	Read 386 Write 382 Mixed 348 SusWrite 242 76% 340 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 29.6 4K Mixed 21.4 68% 22.4 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 203 193% 301 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 101%
Sandisk Extreme SSD 500GB 4,692 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 312GB free Firmware: 1012 SusWrite @10s intervals: 215 228 219 235 148 140 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	51.7% Above average	Read 407 Write 375 Mixed 278 SusWrite 198 70% 314 MB/s	4K Read 16.3 4K Write 22.4 4K Mixed 11.4 51% 16.7 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 37.2 66% 134 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
GEIL CL16-18-18 D4-3000 2x8GB 5,165 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3001 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	86% Excellent	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 33.2 MC Mixed 27.1 92% 32 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 20.2 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 104%

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

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 86%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z370-A II - $132

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	791x
Core i7-9700KIntel $265Bench 97%, 550,833 samples	495x
Core i5-9600KIntel $137Bench 93%, 321,194 samples	430x

GPU
RTX 2070Nvidia $200Bench 104%, 478,117 samples	232x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	145x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	145x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	160x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	156x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	149x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	101x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	84x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $652

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	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) $31	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