HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	107% 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.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	20.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191029
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Sep 23 '21 at 19:21
Run Duration	248 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1650 0-$230 10,189 User benchmarks, average bench 73% CPU0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	70% Good	Memory 79.8 1-Core 82.1 2-Core 184 66% 115 Pts	4-Core 325 8-Core 518 52% 421 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% Gigabyte(1458 37C2) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing below potential (75^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	107% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 117 Parallax 133 107% 127 fps	MRender 182 Gravity 128 Splatting 107 110% 139 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme INTEL SSDPEDMX02 2TB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 167% 901GB free Firmware: 0291 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 867 837 1016 1034 1044 1059 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	143% Outstanding	Read 414 Write 1,170 Mixed 492 SusWrite 976 174% 763 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 34.6 137% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 637 DQ Write 485 DQ Mixed 537 408% 553 MB/s
Poor: 92% ↑ This bench: 143% Great: 246%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 349GB free (System drive) Firmware: DB6Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 4,952 Write 4668 Mixed 4,661 1,063% 4,760 MB/s	4K Read 280 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 170 719% 198 MB/s	DQ Read 695 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 467 360% 501 MB/s
Poor: 78% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: HP33 SusWrite @10s intervals: 154 159 159 158 158 157 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Read 155 Write 151 Mixed 87.3 SusWrite 158 101% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.7 133% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 942GB free Firmware: HP33 SusWrite @10s intervals: 130 134 135 136 135 135 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	67.8% Good	Read 102 Write 76.9 Mixed 66.3 SusWrite 134 70% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.6 111% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GB 244 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 8 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	92.3% Outstanding	MC Read 38.4 MC Write 37.1 MC Mixed 34.4 105% 36.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 11.6 37% 12.8 GB/s	Latency 80.9 50% 80.9 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 96%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

SkillBench Score 0: 0R 0G 0B (High Scores)

Measures user input accuracy relative to the given hardware

Score	Hit Rate	Shots	EFps	0.1% Low	Refresh Rate	Screen	Resolution	Monitor
0%	0%	0	9	7	60	27"	1280 720	ACR0496 R271

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Gaming 12%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 11%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,513x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	785x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	696x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	497x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	307x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	262x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	184x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	58x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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Total price: $373

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16