Asus PRIME B450M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	70.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	49.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (51%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B450M-A (all builds)
Memory	8.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190617
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 10 '21 at 19:25
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	SVN-User
Background CPU	51%

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PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600-$150 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	Memory 77.4 1-Core 111 2-Core 204 74% 131 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 627 62% 508 Pts	64-Core 807 50% 807 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% Asus(1043 869F) CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 465.89 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	70.1% Very good	Lighting 88.6 Reflection 87.9 Parallax 79.5 72% 85.3 fps	MRender 91 Gravity 83.8 Splatting 71.3 66% 82 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend TS120GSSD220S 120GB 8,401 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM71.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 184 53 52 50 48 1.3 MB/s Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	49.5% Average	Read 285 Write 223 Mixed 200 SusWrite 64.7 43% 193 MB/s	4K Read 19.5 4K Write 57 4K Mixed 16 80% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 302 DQ Mixed 137 131% 201 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 96%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 604GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 121 117 120 120 120 119 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	67.3% Good	Read 114 Write 124 Mixed 62 SusWrite 120 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1.1 192% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D30BESBK.8FD 2x8GB 12,876 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	78.6% Very good	MC Read 31.6 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 27.7 82% 28.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.8 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 22.6 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 85.4 47% 85.4 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 107%

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

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 46%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A - $78

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	2,274x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,972x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	739x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	1,084x
RTX 2060Nvidia $296Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	650x
GTX 1660S (Super)Nvidia $238Bench 71%, 428,800 samples	597x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	343x
Green 240GB (2018)WD $50Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	274x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	217x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	571x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	442x
DDR4 3000 2x8GBAdataBench 80%, 77,202 samples	253x

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Value: 103% - Outstanding

Total price: $364

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 $176	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16