Asrock B450 Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.9% 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	225% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asrock B450 Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	6.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20210803
Uptime	5.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 29 '22 at 00:09
Run Duration	277 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^th 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-$78 1,072,639 User benchmarks, average bench 83% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	81% Excellent	Memory 74 1-Core 136 2-Core 251 84% 153 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 801 77% 637 Pts	64-Core 1,008 62% 1,008 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 511.23 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.9% Very good	Lighting 94.3 Reflection 109 Parallax 99.4 77% 101 fps	MRender 90.3 Gravity 94.1 Splatting 96.7 77% 93.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme SSDM21000M2280FS 1TB 232GB free (System drive) Firmware: SVN163 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 818 809 787 791 779 718 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	225% Outstanding	Read 2,133 Write 878 Mixed 747 SusWrite 784 250% 1,136 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 165 4K Mixed 53.7 204% 83.4 MB/s	DQ Read 482 DQ Write 850 DQ Mixed 561 455% 631 MB/s

Puskill 512GB 512GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 109GB free Firmware: 02000006 SusWrite @10s intervals: 279 102 101 89 101 103 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Read 476 Write 470 Mixed 361 SusWrite 129 80% 359 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 87.4 4K Mixed 36.4 143% 52.3 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 355 DQ Mixed 211 188% 281 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 161%
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$84 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 233GB free Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1171 643 640 637 641 638 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	230% Outstanding	Read 1,372 Write 1,204 Mixed 1,142 SusWrite 728 249% 1,112 MB/s	4K Read 64.6 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 76.5 267% 91.9 MB/s	DQ Read 1,174 DQ Write 1,005 DQ Mixed 1,060 802% 1,080 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 230% Great: 340%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 151GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 226 209 205 206 217 220 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	53.3% Above average	Read 315 Write 238 Mixed 257 SusWrite 214 57% 256 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 19.5 4K Mixed 22.1 74% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 118 DQ Write 85.4 DQ Mixed 99.6 75% 101 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 65%
Generic L200 Hard drive 2TB 113 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2TB free Firmware: MZ4OABT0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 147 150 150 150 151 149 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Read 144 Write 145 Mixed 30 SusWrite 149 84% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.6 137% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3600 C18 2x8GB-$65 38,251 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.4% Very good	MC Read 31.1 MC Write 19.8 MC Mixed 29.4 76% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 21.9 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 27.8 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 92.5 43% 92.5 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 122%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450 Steel Legend

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $78Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,232x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $140Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	380x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $190Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	348x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $246Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	287x
RTX 3070Nvidia $500Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	242x
RTX 2060Nvidia $271Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	237x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	91x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $55Bench 275%, 495,311 samples	85x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $69Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	80x

RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $60Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	306x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	190x
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBKingstonBench 86%, 239,203 samples	170x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $413

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $145
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369

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