Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.3% 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	209% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (40%). 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, 3 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	33.1 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200609
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '21 at 01:23
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	40%

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PC Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$186 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 82.8 1-Core 130 2-Core 248 85% 153 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 699 70% 568 Pts	64-Core 769 48% 769 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070S (Super)-$210 663,603 User benchmarks, average bench 115% EVGA(3842 3071) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 457.30 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.3% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 119 Parallax 122 96% 120 fps	MRender 152 Gravity 106 Splatting 95 94% 118 fps
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 123%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$140 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 128GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 780 628 627 615 584 484 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	209% Outstanding	Read 1,781 Write 1,689 Mixed 670 SusWrite 620 265% 1,190 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 53 189% 70.7 MB/s	DQ Read 1,015 DQ Write 870 DQ Mixed 842 658% 909 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 209% Great: 254%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$28 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 649GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 149 154 154 155 154 155 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Read 151 Write 147 Mixed 90.9 SusWrite 154 100% 136 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1.1 230% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown KHX2666C16/16G 00002C0F 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 3433980710EA KHX2666C16/16G 00002C0F 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 48GB 18 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 16384, 8192, 16384, 8192 MB Relative performance (0^th percentile)	69.3% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 22.1 70% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 27 SC Mixed 21.9 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 75.6 53% 75.6 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 78%

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

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $186Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,890x
Core i7-8700KIntel $199Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,404x
Core i5-8400Intel $114Bench 82%, 312,220 samples	781x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,052x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $230Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	671x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $50Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	853x
SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 238%, 21,542 samples	166x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $103Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	155x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 78%, 8,965 samples	556x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 9,471 samples	553x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,858 samples	504x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $431

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	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