Asrock B550M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.1% 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	126% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

2 months ago, 2 months ago, 2 months ago, 2 months ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B550M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20201106
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '21 at 04:44
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 3600-$200 756,242 User benchmarks, average bench 85% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 82.3 1-Core 135 2-Core 271 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 508 8-Core 799 83% 653 Pts	64-Core 1,081 72% 1,081 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 173,328 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1654 MHz, MLim: 1765 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 460.89 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 128 Parallax 113 93% 118 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 111 Splatting 99.5 89% 106 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 90%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$60 503,065 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 144GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT04B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 418 377 370 342 329 332 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 496 Mixed 457 SusWrite 361 103% 458 MB/s	4K Read 47.6 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 65.7 221% 78.2 MB/s	DQ Read 296 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 349 255% 329 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 129%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$80 32,936 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 355GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 79 77 77 78 78 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	42% Average	Read 68 Write 78.3 Mixed 47.7 SusWrite 78 50% 68 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.7 130% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 42% Great: 61%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 241,390 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 247GB free Firmware: 2AR10002 SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 80 81 81 81 81 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	41% Average	Read 62 Write 77.3 Mixed 40.5 SusWrite 80.6 48% 65.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.7 122% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 20,648 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 24.1 MC Mixed 35.3 91% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 26.5 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 36 82% 28.8 GB/s	Latency 76.3 52% 76.3 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 108%

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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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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 123%

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Motherboard: Asrock B550M Steel Legend

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $200Bench 85%, 756,242 samples	685x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $330Bench 87%, 468,205 samples	420x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $370Bench 97%, 68,437 samples	248x

GPU
RTX 3070Nvidia $500Bench 153%, 122,942 samples	191x
RX 5700-XTAMD $400Bench 107%, 316,461 samples	176x
RTX 2060Nvidia $338Bench 89%, 374,481 samples	110x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $70Bench 271%, 317,552 samples	73x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $165Bench 321%, 217,736 samples	71x
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBWD $105Bench 236%, 57,938 samples	70x

RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $100Bench 85%, 200,587 samples	91x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $77Bench 86%, 201,063 samples	70x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $79Bench 85%, 377,583 samples	69x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $870

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-10600K $224	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Crucial MX500 250GB $48
Intel Core i5-10400F $143	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i7-10700K $326	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $40

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $40	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $79	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $73	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16