Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9.37% 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	343% 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8559U 2,379 User benchmarks, average bench 78% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 136 2-Core 268 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 490 8-Core 627 71% 558 Pts	64-Core 618 38% 618 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 90%

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)	9.37% Terrible	Lighting 10.6 Reflection 11.9 Parallax 13.6 9% 12 fps	MRender 14.1 Gravity 12.1 Splatting 13.3 11% 13.2 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 9.37% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$90 455,997 User benchmarks, average bench 310% 774GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1765 1890 1915 2158 2177 1952 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	343% Outstanding	Read 2151 Write 2,205 Mixed 2,114 SusWrite 1,976 476% 2,111 MB/s	4K Read 70.9 4K Write 141 4K Mixed 93.5 302% 102 MB/s	DQ Read 984 DQ Write 889 DQ Mixed 1,008 737% 960 MB/s
Poor: 188% ↑ This bench: 343% Great: 410%
Seagate ST1000LM048-2E7172 1TB 89,596 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 725GB free Firmware: SDM1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 110 115 117 110 113 115 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	47.4% Average	Read 50.6 Write 60.6 Mixed 69.2 SusWrite 114 54% 73.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 4.3 4K Mixed 0.6 184% 1.93 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB 4,823 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 48.4 MC Write 49.8 MC Mixed 27.1 119% 41.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 43.6 SC Mixed 21.3 79% 27.5 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 86%

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 $92Bench 235%, 154,949 samples	48x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 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