Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	81.6% 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	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 (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200713
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 19 '21 at 22:34
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 3600-$83 1,072,639 User benchmarks, average bench 83% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 75.1 1-Core 134 2-Core 260 85% 157 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 806 78% 639 Pts	64-Core 1,002 62% 1,002 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-$275 75,918 User benchmarks, average bench 85% ASRock(1849 5102) ≥ 4GB Ram: 8GB, Driver: 21.4.1 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.8% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 123 Parallax 161 87% 130 fps	MRender 99 Gravity 112 Splatting 81.5 78% 97.4 fps
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 91%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX500 480GB-$38 83,298 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 290 0.6 68 232 0.4 0.4 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Read 503 Write 444 Mixed 424 SusWrite 98.7 82% 368 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 99 4K Mixed 31.8 143% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 225 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 49.7 103% 205 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 92%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 197GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 92 95 94 93 95 96 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	67.3% Good	Read 140 Write 128 Mixed 75.1 SusWrite 94.1 80% 109 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1.2 242% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G4D26BFSEK.8FD BLS8G4D26BFSBK.8FD 16GB 58 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2667, 2667 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.3% Very good	MC Read 32.4 MC Write 20 MC Mixed 29.7 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 22.5 SC Write 19.6 SC Mixed 29 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 90.2 44% 90.2 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 103%

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

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Typical B450M Steel Legend Builds (Compare 8,100 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 74%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $134Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 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 $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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 $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