Asus PRIME B450M-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 71%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 68%
Battle cruiser
Workstation
Workstation 69%
Battle cruiser
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith 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 66%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics111% 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 DriveThe 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.
Memory40GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 40GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.
MotherboardAsus PRIME B450M-A  (all builds)
Memory25.9 GB free of 40 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20201202
Uptime9.1 Days
Run DateAug 25 '22 at 02:18
Run Duration228 Seconds
Run User USA-User
Background CPU 30%
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 PC Performing as expected (43rd percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X-$225
AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads
Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg)
Performing way below expectations (18th percentile)
66% Good
Memory 62.7
1-Core 102
2-Core 191
66% 119 Pts
4-Core 372
8-Core 617
60% 495 Pts
64-Core 937
58% 937 Pts
Poor: 58%
This bench: 66%
Great: 80%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti-$340
Nvidia(10DE 147A) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 516.94
Performing below potential (2nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide
111% Outstanding
Lighting 148
Reflection 148
Parallax 151
121% 149 fps
MRender 162
Gravity 120
Splatting 100
101% 127 fps
Poor: 116%
This bench: 111%
Great: 136%
Drives BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Amd-raid WDC WDS500G2B0A- 500GB
40GB free (System drive)
Firmware: X61190WD
SusWrite @10s intervals: 300 219 195 203 125 139 MB/s
Performing way above expectations (95th percentile)
183% Outstanding
Read 437
Write 414
Mixed 304
SusWrite 197
250% 338 MB/s
4K Read 10.4
4K Write 7.7
4K Mixed 5
1,132% 7.7 MB/s
Poor: 16%
This bench: 183%
Great: 173%
Seagate BUP BK 5TB
2TB free
Firmware: 0304
SusWrite @10s intervals: 50 83 93 94 97 94 MB/s
Performing as expected (57th percentile)
52.1% Above average
Read 95.5
Write 110
Mixed 68
SusWrite 85.1
66% 89.7 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 3.3
4K Mixed 0.6
174% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 15%
This bench: 52.1%
Great: 67%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Kingston KHX3200C16D4/16GX Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 Corsair CMK8GX4M1A2400C14 Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 40GB
2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz
16384, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB
Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
50.4% Above average
MC Read 19.4
MC Write 16.8
MC Mixed 18.8
52% 18.3 GB/s
SC Read 14.8
SC Write 12.1
SC Mixed 14.9
40% 13.9 GB/s
Latency 120
33% 120 ns
Poor: 50%
This bench: 50.4%
Great: 63%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical PRIME B450M-A Builds (Compare 10,437 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 49%
Yacht
Desktop
Desktop 87%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 46%
Yacht

Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A - $78

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 105% - Outstanding Total price: $360
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