Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	101% 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	183% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8500-$171 43,089 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 86.9 1-Core 125 2-Core 249 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 696 71% 574 Pts	64-Core 694 43% 694 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1425) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 517.40 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 137 Parallax 127 104% 131 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 131 Splatting 116 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 44,403 User benchmarks, average bench 196% 415GB free (System drive) Firmware: 6L7QCXY7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 822 636 640 652 654 644 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	183% Outstanding	Read 1,213 Write 1,165 Mixed 698 SusWrite 675 210% 938 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 72.6 4K Mixed 50.7 161% 53.8 MB/s	DQ Read 1,093 DQ Write 823 DQ Mixed 931 704% 949 MB/s
Poor: 126% ↑ This bench: 183% Great: 259%
WD WD20EFZX-68AWUN0 2TB 317 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 741GB free Firmware: 81.00A81 SusWrite @10s intervals: 125 158 164 145 152 160 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Read 138 Write 94 Mixed 41 SusWrite 151 77% 106 MB/s	4K Read 1.9 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.4 131% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 115%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1K43CB2-CRC 4x8GB 2,229 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	MC Read 31.2 MC Write 32 MC Mixed 25.9 85% 29.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 34.7 SC Mixed 24.9 75% 26.1 GB/s	Latency 70.6 57% 70.6 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 96%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 42%

Speed boat

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	142x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	126x
Fury 2666 C16 2x8GBHyperX $75Bench 82%, 134,977 samples	121x

Value: 105% - Outstanding

Total price: $404

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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