Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
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.
Boot Drive	179% 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	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, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 29 '22 at 09:35
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 89.3 1-Core 128 2-Core 253 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 705 72% 583 Pts	64-Core 706 44% 706 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 497.29 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 147 Parallax 136 111% 140 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 139 Splatting 122 103% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$88 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 89GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 591 328 329 329 323 317 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	179% Outstanding	Read 1,251 Write 1,125 Mixed 507 SusWrite 370 181% 813 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 53.1 205% 77.4 MB/s	DQ Read 1,053 DQ Write 941 DQ Mixed 700 606% 898 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 179% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 163GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 7,432 Write 4,587 Mixed 5,413 1,286% 5811 MB/s	4K Read 673 4K Write 256 4K Mixed 353 1,608% 427 MB/s	DQ Read 1,635 DQ Write 876 DQ Mixed 1,028 825% 1180 MB/s
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 688GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 76 80 82 82 81 81 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	39.8% Below average	Read 58.3 Write 53.1 Mixed 38.4 SusWrite 80.2 42% 57.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.7 134% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 15,285 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.4% Average	MC Read 13.9 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 11.9 38% 13.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 15.4 SC Mixed 14.5 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 41.4% Great: 110%

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

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,278x
Core i5-6600KIntel $120Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	479x
Core i7-7700KIntel $200Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	303x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	494x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	401x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	202x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	181x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	152x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	119x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	127x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	125x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	98x

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