Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	177% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190822
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 06 '21 at 06:14
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF-$112 52,721 User benchmarks, average bench 72% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	Memory 81.2 1-Core 113 2-Core 224 78% 139 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 699 69% 564 Pts	64-Core 918 57% 918 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-$209 230,793 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Gigabyte(1458 3FC8) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 466.27 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Lighting 94 Reflection 90 Parallax 78.3 77% 87.4 fps	MRender 65 Gravity 80.6 Splatting 72.2 60% 72.6 fps
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 73%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme 512GB 512GB 2,208 User benchmarks, average bench 181% 216GB free (System drive) Firmware: T0609B0L Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 739 678 252 616 281 265 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	177% Outstanding	Read 1,575 Write 1,560 Mixed 1,116 SusWrite 472 264% 1,180 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 39 188% 71.3 MB/s	DQ Read 688 DQ Write 644 DQ Mixed 523 432% 618 MB/s
Poor: 107% ↑ This bench: 177% Great: 260%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 509GB free Firmware: 2AR20004 SusWrite @10s intervals: 90 91 92 92 91 92 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	51.3% Above average	Read 87.3 Write 63 Mixed 38.1 SusWrite 91.4 51% 69.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 1 169% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB 87,241 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 41.9 MC Write 39.7 MC Mixed 33.8 110% 38.5 GB/s	SC Read 26.5 SC Write 39.2 SC Mixed 29.8 91% 31.8 GB/s	Latency 78.4 51% 78.4 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 102%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,918x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	826x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $119Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	606x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $250Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	460x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	176x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	317x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $525

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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16