Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	95.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160406
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '20 at 15:48
Run Duration	155 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Memory 92.4 1-Core 71.8 2-Core 144 63% 103 Pts	4-Core 278 8-Core 396 42% 337 Pts	64-Core 413 26% 413 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% Gigabyte(1458 37C6) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 442.59 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.7% Outstanding	Lighting 112 Reflection 154 Parallax 111 91% 126 fps	MRender 172 Gravity 125 Splatting 101 105% 133 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk S064G 63GB 2,842 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 3GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.2.0 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 428 Write 161 Mixed 64.2 47% 218 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 7.3 4K Mixed 9.3 42% 11.2 MB/s
Poor: 28% Great: 47%
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 331,647 User benchmarks, average bench 297% 217GB free Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 390 532 516 542 544 543 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	137% Outstanding	Read 601 Write 494 Mixed 524 SusWrite 511 120% 532 MB/s	4K Read 48 4K Write 82.7 4K Mixed 59.4 193% 63.4 MB/s	DQ Read 500 DQ Write 451 DQ Mixed 470 354% 473 MB/s
Poor: 214% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 372%
WD Blue 1TB (2015)-$40 52,322 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 700GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 141 145 144 146 145 145 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	67.6% Good	Read 90.7 Write 96.2 Mixed 66 SusWrite 144 73% 99.3 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.9 188% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 87%
Samsung HD502IJ 500GB-$40 25,285 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 418GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 SusWrite @10s intervals: 68 66 65 64 65 65 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	38.8% Below average	Read 69.3 Write 65.3 Mixed 50 SusWrite 65.4 46% 62.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 1 177% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 10,715 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	49.8% Average	MC Read 22 MC Write 13.9 MC Mixed 17.7 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 12.3 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.8% Great: 54%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970-GAMING

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	157x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	46x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	32x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 46%, 10,715 samples	32x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 4,751 samples	12x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GBCorsairBench 46%, 237 samples	9x

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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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16