Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	5.68% 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	278% 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.

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 92.9 1-Core 132 2-Core 263 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 522 8-Core 863 85% 693 Pts	64-Core 1,011 63% 1,011 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i5 i7) 147,588 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7B48) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 27.20.100.9127 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	5.68% Terrible	Lighting 7.6 Reflection 9.9 Parallax 8.9 6% 8.8 fps	MRender 11.6 Gravity 7.8 Splatting 0.3 5% 6.57 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.68% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$170 93,447 User benchmarks, average bench 322% 114GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1034 906 868 848 829 803 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	278% Outstanding	Read 2048 Write 1150 Mixed 944 SusWrite 881 279% 1,256 MB/s	4K Read 58.5 4K Write 170 4K Mixed 79.7 281% 103 MB/s	DQ Read 1413 DQ Write 1,085 DQ Mixed 1,267 943% 1,255 MB/s
Poor: 195% ↑ This bench: 278% Great: 393%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 332GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 160 160 158 160 160 161 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	70% Good	Read 82.7 Write 111 Mixed 30.8 SusWrite 160 70% 96.1 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 1.9 357% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1G43TB1-CTD 2x8GB 1,626 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	MC Read 33.7 MC Write 35.1 MC Mixed 27.4 92% 32.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 38.2 SC Mixed 28.7 83% 28.9 GB/s	Latency 62.3 64% 62.3 ns
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 114%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 55%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	687x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	477x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	353x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	753x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	390x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	321x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $569

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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