Dell Studio XPS 9100

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 78.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	112% 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	59.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell Studio XPS 9100 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 05DN3X
Memory	21.4 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20101021
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 10 '17 at 16:29
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon X5680 4,201 User benchmarks, average bench 74% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.35 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	Memory 94.3 1-Core 82.5 2-Core 171 70% 116 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 551 55% 447 Pts	64-Core 665 41% 665 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6797) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 3002 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	112% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 183 Parallax 188 114% 170 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 182 Splatting 127 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB-$139 17,545 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4476 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2913 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (A8) Unknown 100 100 170 (A9) Unknown 100 100 332 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 62 (AE) Unknown 100 100 140 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 59 253404119067 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 518 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 16290 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7594 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8985 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	59.7% Above average	Read 267 Write 256 Mixed 250 58% 258 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 44.4 4K Mixed 22.9 90% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 171 DQ Write 97.4 DQ Mixed 47.6 59% 105 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 99%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$89 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 30084499 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5246 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 241733007 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14614 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5143 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 41 1508004659228 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 239 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 5307 (C2) HDA temperature 28 59 55834574876 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 20 30084499 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 33487860035897 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3732270150 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3234004183	67.9% Good	Read 120 Write 117 Mixed 107 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.52 120% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-197.A00LF 9905403-197.A00LF 9905403-197.A00LF KHX1600C9D3/4GX KHX1600C9D3/4GX 9905403-197.A00LF 24GB 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49% Average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 15.3 MC Mixed 18.2 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 11.8 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

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System: Dell Studio XPS 9100

CPU
Core i7 930Intel $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples	196x
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	90x
Core i7 X 980Intel $148Bench 76%, 8,133 samples	20x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	30x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	23x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	18x

SSD
870 EVO 1TBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 129,044 samples	15x
SD8TB8U-256G-1006 256GBSandiskBench 73%, 213 samples	12x
FTM1TN325H 1TBBench 70%, 177 samples	11x

RAM
M378B5273DH0-CH9 M378B5273DH0-CH9 M378B5273CH0-CH9 M378B5273DH0-CH9 M378B5273CH0-CH9 M378B5273DH0-CH9 24GBSamsungBench 51%, 13 samples	13x
M378B5773CH0-CH9 6x2GBSamsungBench 50%, 43 samples	11x
KP223C-ELD 6x2GBKingstonBench 52%, 31 samples	9x

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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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16