Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 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 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 69.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	132% 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	217% 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 (91%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180409
Uptime	11.4 Days
Run Date	Apr 19 '21 at 21:44
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	91%

PC Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	69.3% Good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 98.3 2-Core 133 68% 108 Pts	4-Core 249 8-Core 441 42% 345 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 466.11 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 187 Parallax 187 151% 186 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 192 Splatting 126 120% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$158 331,647 User benchmarks, average bench 297% 719GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 789 581 914 1026 1111 1081 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	217% Outstanding	Read 1,444 Write 1,027 Mixed 1,138 SusWrite 917 254% 1,132 MB/s	4K Read 53.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 73.4 231% 77.2 MB/s	DQ Read 867 DQ Write 516 DQ Mixed 882 606% 755 MB/s
Poor: 214% ↑ This bench: 217% Great: 372%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 299GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 100 89 107 114 117 116 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	65.9% Good	Read 123 Write 118 Mixed 43.4 SusWrite 107 71% 97.8 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.6 124% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 109%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 120 96 118 124 130 131 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	74% Very good	Read 138 Write 123 Mixed 34.7 SusWrite 120 75% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.5 96% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 27,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 21.1 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 26.8 SC Mixed 21.2 61% 21.3 GB/s	Latency 62.4 64% 62.4 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 107%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 112%

UFO

Desktop 96%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 103%

UFO

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	199x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	182x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	177x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	145x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	115x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x

Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $1,110

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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