Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	15% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	93.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 76.5 1-Core 115 2-Core 222 77% 138 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 434 55% 418 Pts	64-Core 429 27% 429 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 550-$79 79,894 User benchmarks, average bench 14% MSI(1462 8A90) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 27.20.15003.1004 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	15% Very poor	Lighting 16.1 Reflection 29.4 Parallax 21.8 13% 22.4 fps	MRender 27.4 Gravity 16.5 Splatting 23.8 18% 22.6 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 15% Great: 16%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Hs-ssd-e100 512G 512GB 2,522 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 458GB free (System drive) Firmware: SN7872 SusWrite @10s intervals: 391 375 372 372 372 376 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Read 419 Write 383 Mixed 365 SusWrite 376 87% 386 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 97.5 4K Mixed 38.1 138% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 232 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 281 200% 254 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 99%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905713-017.A00G KGTWW1-MIB 8GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	65.5% Good	MC Read 24.6 MC Write 25 MC Mixed 19.8 66% 23.1 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 25.4 SC Mixed 21 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 87.3 46% 87.3 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 65%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 35%

Sail boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

Raft

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	1x

GPU
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	1x

SSD
C800 2.5 inch SATA 512GB SSDDahuaBench 75%, 118 samples	1x

RAM
AX4U36008G18I-DB55 2x8GBUnknownBench 79%, 3 samples	1x

Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $197

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16