Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 78.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	82.7% 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	109% 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 (58%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 98 2-Core 184 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 359 8-Core 577 57% 468 Pts	64-Core 776 48% 776 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 497.09 Performing below potential (80^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.7% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 117 Parallax 104 84% 108 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 102 Splatting 92.2 80% 98.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 334GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 459 333 341 338 330 332 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 476 Write 463 Mixed 369 SusWrite 355 94% 416 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 90.4 4K Mixed 50.1 169% 59.4 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 332 DQ Mixed 353 265% 355 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 131%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 297GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 465 459 468 468 471 472 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	111% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 471 Mixed 338 SusWrite 467 100% 444 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 90.5 4K Mixed 41.9 152% 55.2 MB/s	DQ Read 383 DQ Write 332 DQ Mixed 350 264% 355 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 124%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 323GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 121 106 118 107 116 109 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	Read 64 Write 39.2 Mixed 57.7 SusWrite 113 51% 68.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1 177% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB-$408 6,794 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	96.2% Outstanding	MC Read 37.7 MC Write 38.9 MC Mixed 34.4 106% 37 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 20.2 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 115%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 39%

Jet ski

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	12x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	8x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	7x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsairBench 83%, 5,673 samples	7x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	6x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	5x

Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $424

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