Lenovo 81CU

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 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 brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.18% 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	125% 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.

CPU throttled at 89% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

System	Lenovo 81CU (all builds)
Motherboard	LENOVO LNVNB161216
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190524
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 03 '21 at 05:49
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%
CPU Throttled	89%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8550U 184,356 User benchmarks, average bench 53% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 79.1 1-Core 126 2-Core 229 81% 145 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 602 60% 488 Pts	64-Core 592 37% 592 Pts
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake R) 420,154 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Legend(17AA 39F0) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 27.20.100.8681 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.18% Terrible	Lighting 7.3 Reflection 9.7 Parallax 8.7 6% 8.57 fps	MRender 13.2 Gravity 7.5 Splatting 13.7 10% 11.5 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.18% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme HFS256GD9TNG-62A 256GB 545 User benchmarks, average bench 119% 196GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1E00 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 307 314 313 315 315 315 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	125% Outstanding	Read 1,026 Write 546 Mixed 469 SusWrite 313 130% 589 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 141 4K Mixed 27.6 161% 67.4 MB/s	DQ Read 483 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 276 236% 352 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 158%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 4ATS1G64HZ-2G3A1 859B CT8G4SFS824A.M8FE 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	77.5% Very good	MC Read 30 MC Write 30.3 MC Mixed 22.7 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 24.3 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 82.2 49% 82.2 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 77%

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

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Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 57%

Gunboat

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

System: Lenovo 81CU

CPU
Core i7-8550UIntelBench 53%, 184,356 samples	379x
Core i5-8250UIntelBench 53%, 234,942 samples	87x

GPU
UHD Graphics 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake R)IntelBench 5%, 420,154 samples	346x
GTX 1050 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 23%, 160,694 samples	114x
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	2x

SSD
PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 217%, 80,540 samples	99x
HFS256GD9TNG-62A0A 256GBBench 112%, 7,301 samples	64x
PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsungBench 239%, 34,988 samples	57x

RAM
M471A1K43BB1-CTD 1x8GBSamsungBench 38%, 2,119 samples	72x
M471A1K43BB1-CTD Ramaxel RMSA3260MD78HAF-2666 16GBSamsungBench 69%, 290 samples	60x
M471A1K43BB1-CTD Hynix HMA81GS6CJR8N-VK 16GBSamsungBench 71%, 305 samples	39x

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Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $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