Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	290% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (70%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	26.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '21 at 07:41
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	70%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$379 502,549 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 128 2-Core 215 88% 147 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 454 65% 471 Pts	64-Core 456 31% 456 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 98%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 112,116 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 872F) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 27.20.100.9126 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	6.32% Terrible	Lighting 7.4 Reflection 10 Parallax 8.8 6% 8.73 fps	MRender 11.8 Gravity 7.6 Splatting 13.2 7% 10.9 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.32% Great: 6%
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 70,584 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 04C4) CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 1100 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.12.1 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 112 Parallax 199 93% 142 fps	MRender 93.9 Gravity 144 Splatting 76.9 109% 105 fps
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 106%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$80 264,269 User benchmarks, average bench 286% 279GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1823 1025 767 772 769 781 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	290% Outstanding	Read 2,419 Write 2,180 Mixed 1,650 SusWrite 990 405% 1,810 MB/s	4K Read 61.8 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 77.4 250% 82.7 MB/s	DQ Read 1,488 DQ Write 957 DQ Mixed 1,138 871% 1,194 MB/s
Poor: 211% ↑ This bench: 290% Great: 332%
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$150 17,305 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 112GB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 352 131 130 132 132 132 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	61.6% Good	Read 394 Write 365 Mixed 307 SusWrite 168 69% 309 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 38.8 4K Mixed 28.8 92% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 146 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 69.8 75% 123 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 111%
Intel Optane+1.8TBHDD 146 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: 18.30 SusWrite @10s intervals: 138 141 142 136 149 142 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 66% Great: 104%
Amd-raid WDC WDS240G2G0B- 240GB 3,324 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 355GB free Firmware: UJ450000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 300 6.8 136 6.8 66 3.9 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	169% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 366 Mixed 347 SusWrite 86.5 242% 324 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0.4 1,078% 8.9 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 169% Great: 167%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$80 92,363 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 397GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 151 153 153 153 153 152 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	72% Very good	Read 97 Write 111 Mixed 57.1 SusWrite 152 76% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1.6 4K Write 5 4K Mixed 2.6 448% 3.07 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BL16G32C16U4BL.M8FB1 2x16GB 91 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 41.7 MC Write 42.3 MC Mixed 30.7 109% 38.2 GB/s	SC Read 21.8 SC Write 27.6 SC Mixed 20.7 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 48.4 83% 48.4 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 107%

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

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Gaming 74%

Battleship

Desktop 92%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 64%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $379Bench 88%, 502,549 samples	4,630x
Core i5-7600KIntel $244Bench 84%, 166,454 samples	1,792x
Core i7-6700KIntel $268Bench 84%, 517,195 samples	864x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $330Bench 80%, 961,354 samples	1,624x
GTX 1080Nvidia $450Bench 105%, 736,321 samples	1,301x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $290Bench 57%, 1,069,764 samples	1,099x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 690,674 samples	594x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $125Bench 111%, 608,974 samples	548x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $110Bench 114%, 404,139 samples	298x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $73Bench 81%, 479,768 samples	1,025x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $79Bench 85%, 377,583 samples	424x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $77Bench 84%, 199,555 samples	176x

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Value: 65% - Good

Total price: $1,041

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-10600K $230	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Crucial MX500 250GB $48
Intel Core i5-10400F $151	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i7-10700K $327	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