Alienware 15 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 73% 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 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 70.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	119% 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	147% 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 (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware 15 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 15 R2
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 08 '17 at 03:23
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	36%

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 i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	70.5% Very good	Memory 82 1-Core 87.4 2-Core 157 65% 109 Pts	4-Core 320 8-Core 490 50% 405 Pts	64-Core 557 34% 557 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 1471) ≥ 4GB; ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP Extreme CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2800 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	119% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 187 Parallax 192 125% 177 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 187 Splatting 132 122% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 7,011 User benchmarks, average bench 140% 287GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXV7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	147% Outstanding	Read 1,551 Write 571 Mixed 801 213% 974 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 21.9 147% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 37.3 DQ Write 322 DQ Mixed 20.9 63% 127 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 147% Great: 172%
Seagate ST1000LM044 HN-M101SAD 1TB 3,391 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 931GB free Firmware: 2BD10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 92 90 2570 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1590 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5073 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1377 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 5104 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 148586 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201864314908 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 4782 (F1) Unknown 98 96 3455446 (F2) Unknown 97 94 4565108 (FE) Unknown 100 100 2	79% Very good	Read 135 Write 139 Mixed 148 107% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 4.46 4K Mixed 0.49 167% 1.89 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 78%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GB 6,021 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 23.6 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 25.2 SC Mixed 19.7 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 76.9 52% 76.9 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 76%

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System: Alienware 15 R2

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	629x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	123x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	120x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	483x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	172x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	94x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	211x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	34x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	24x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	234x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	113x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	76x

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Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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