Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (33rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 67 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 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 71.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	76.4% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	7.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20220119
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Mar 09 '22 at 04:46
Run Duration	374 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

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PC Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	Memory 80.1 1-Core 118 2-Core 199 76% 133 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 641 58% 488 Pts	64-Core 670 42% 670 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Dell(1028 3301) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2014 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 511.79 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.4% Very good	Lighting 93 Reflection 141 Parallax 96.5 76% 110 fps	MRender 92.6 Gravity 96.2 Splatting 94.8 78% 94.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SE800 1TB 231 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 709GB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 341 340 340 349 353 351 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	62.6% Good	Read 276 Write 340 Mixed 311 SusWrite 346 72% 318 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 31.2 4K Mixed 24 78% 25.1 MB/s	DQ Read 135 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 149 109% 141 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 89%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1TB free (System drive) Firmware: MX4OAC70 SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 120 105 85 101 90 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	36.7% Below average	Read 24.6 Write 132 Mixed 31.8 SusWrite 103 53% 72.9 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.6 125% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 36.7% Great: 108%
SDHC Card 4GB 2,629 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 4GB free, PID null SusWrite @10s intervals: 11 11 11 11 11 11 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	10.6% Very poor	Read 20.1 Write 7.5 Mixed 6.7 SusWrite 11.3 14% 11.4 MB/s	4K Read 6.7 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.5 83% 2.8 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 10.6% Great: 11%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GB 8,965 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	77.3% Very good	MC Read 32 MC Write 30.3 MC Mixed 24.4 83% 28.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 20 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 80.4 50% 80.4 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 85%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,864x
Core i7-8700KIntel $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,392x
Core i5-8400Intel $131Bench 82%, 312,220 samples	774x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,302x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,041x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	664x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	845x
SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 238%, 21,542 samples	164x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	153x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 78%, 8,965 samples	553x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 9,471 samples	551x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,858 samples	495x

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Value: 104% - Outstanding

Total price: $428

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $23	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16