Asus PRIME B250M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	93.2% 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	238% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (38%). 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B250M-A (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit kleuren, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180511
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 04 '21 at 17:41
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	38%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Memory 76.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 216 76% 136 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 635 64% 519 Pts	64-Core 611 38% 611 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia RTX 2060S (Super)-$510 319,148 User benchmarks, average bench 100% MSI(1462 C752) CLim: 2175 MHz, MLim: 3570 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 461.40 Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	93.2% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 106 Parallax 119 96% 114 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 108 Splatting 101 88% 109 fps
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 106%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 27.20.100.9316 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	5.89% Terrible	Lighting 6.3 Reflection 8.2 Parallax 8 5% 7.5 fps	MRender 9 Gravity 6.7 Splatting 10.6 7% 8.77 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.89% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 349GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1070 1140 1156 1154 1138 1106 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	238% Outstanding	Read 1,550 Write 1,444 Mixed 742 SusWrite 1,128 272% 1,216 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 60.2 203% 72.3 MB/s	DQ Read 1,084 DQ Write 923 DQ Mixed 950 726% 986 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 238% Great: 302%
SanDisk X300s SATA M.2 256GB 785 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 207GB free Firmware: X2170002 SusWrite @10s intervals: 366 402 407 410 416 426 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Read 440 Write 396 Mixed 235 SusWrite 404 83% 369 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 69.8 4K Mixed 32 118% 42.8 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 150 157% 259 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 98%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$85 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 393GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 385 429 430 430 438 451 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 449 Write 411 Mixed 367 SusWrite 427 93% 414 MB/s	4K Read 37.4 4K Write 88.4 4K Mixed 54.3 173% 60 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 310 DQ Mixed 327 247% 331 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G4D240FSB.8FBD CT4G4DFS824A.M8FE BLS4G4D240FSB.8FBD CT4G4DFS824A.M8FE 16GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.1% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 22.6 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 21.2 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 88 45% 88 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 79%

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

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B250M-A - $74

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $70Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,303x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	965x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	716x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	533x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	470x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	465x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	140x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	140x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	111x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	93x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	78x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 1x8GBAdataBench 42%, 10,940 samples	66x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $288

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	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 $550	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) $29	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