Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	8.78% 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	86.9% 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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8259U 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 73% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 95.9 2-Core 212 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 566 59% 476 Pts	64-Core 569 35% 569 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 8,316 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Intel(8086 2074) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 27.20.100.8681 Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	8.78% Terrible	Lighting 11.8 Reflection 10.9 Parallax 13.2 10% 12 fps	MRender 15.1 Gravity 14.8 Splatting 0.1 7% 10 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 8.78% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7TE512HMHP-000 512GB 3,033 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 357GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT02L06 SusWrite @10s intervals: 330 320 372 361 350 372 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Read 450 Write 395 Mixed 180 SusWrite 351 77% 344 MB/s	4K Read 35.8 4K Write 79.6 4K Mixed 19.9 122% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 88.6 115% 210 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 100%
Mtfddak2 T0TDL 2TB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 956GB free Firmware: M5M SusWrite @10s intervals: 434 444 449 443 445 449 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	69.5% Good	Read 250 Write 379 Mixed 298 SusWrite 444 78% 343 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 37.9 4K Mixed 27 86% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 111 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 120 90% 119 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 68%
Seagate ST2000LM007-1R8174 2TB 71,657 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 881GB free Firmware: LDM2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 71 72 75 76 76 73 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	37.2% Below average	Read 55 Write 75.3 Mixed 93.4 SusWrite 74 56% 74.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.8 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.7 169% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A1K43CB1-CRC 2x8GB 62,266 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 41.1 MC Write 51.8 MC Mixed 27.3 114% 40.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 20.9 74% 25.9 GB/s	Latency 59.5 67% 59.5 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 78%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 15%

Surfboard

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 14%

Tree trunk

GPU
Iris Plus Graphics 655IntelBench 9%, 8,316 samples	1,601x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	7x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	6x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	75x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 235%, 154,949 samples	48x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance SODIM DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 75%, 5,229 samples	61x
HyperX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 78%, 5,327 samples	54x
F4 DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 75%, 4,823 samples	35x

Value: 112% - Outstanding

Total price: $43

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