Acer Aspire E5-521

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 28% Raft	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (35th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 65 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 an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 28.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	1.85% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	69.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Acer Aspire E5-521 (all builds)
Motherboard	Acer Larne
Memory	8.9 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150715
Uptime	2.5 Days
Run Date	Dec 29 '20 at 21:20
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A4-6210 APU R3 Graphics 5,378 User benchmarks, average bench 30% Socket FT3b, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 1.8 GHz, turbo 1.8 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	28.1% Poor	Memory 37.3 1-Core 27.5 2-Core 55.2 25% 40 Pts	4-Core 109 8-Core 111 15% 110 Pts	64-Core 109 7% 109 Pts
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 28.1% Great: 36%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R3 Graphics 6,021 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Acer(1025 0865) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 19.20 Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	1.85% Terrible	Lighting 2 Reflection 3.8 Parallax 2.8 2% 2.87 fps	MRender 2.6 Gravity 1.9 Splatting 3.5 2% 2.67 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.85% Great: 2%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GB 97,462 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 420GB free (System drive) Firmware: 411030WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 331 261 259 264 261 264 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Read 428 Write 389 Mixed 274 SusWrite 274 76% 341 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 37.6 4K Mixed 28 92% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 173 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 164 123% 164 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9S3L/4G ACR16D3LS1KFG/8G 12GB 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	17.1% Very poor	MC Read 7.1 MC Write 3.9 MC Mixed 6.6 17% 5.87 GB/s	SC Read 5.2 SC Write 3.7 SC Mixed 6.8 15% 5.23 GB/s	Latency 215 19% 215 ns

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

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Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 33%

Sail boat

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

System: Acer Aspire E5-521

CPU
A6-6310 APU R4 GraphicsAMDBench 33%, 10,893 samples	33x
E2-6110 APU R2 GraphicsAMDBench 29%, 1,030 samples	21x
A8-6410 APU R5 GraphicsAMDBench 32%, 19,683 samples	20x

GPU
Radeon R4AMDBench 2%, 19,746 samples	33x
Radeon R2 GraphicsAMDBench 2%, 1,710 samples	21x
Radeon R5AMDBench 2%, 40,685 samples	20x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	3x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	2x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	2x

RAM
HMT451S6BFR8A-PB 1x4GBHynixBench 25%, 64,960 samples	17x
ACR16D3LS1KFG/8G 1x8GBKingstonBench 27%, 7,765 samples	9x
ACR16D3LFS1KBG/2G Hynix HMT451S6BFR8A-PB 6GBKingstonBench 31%, 698 samples	9x

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Value: 32% - Below average

Total price: $38

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16