Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	91% 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	215% 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.

PC Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 84.9 1-Core 98.4 2-Core 183 71% 122 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 654 61% 510 Pts	64-Core 1,004 62% 1,004 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 516.94 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	91% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 130 Parallax 118 95% 122 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 121 Splatting 85.6 84% 104 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 367,854 User benchmarks, average bench 276% 237GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1028 801 794 799 799 800 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	215% Outstanding	Read 2,150 Write 1,887 Mixed 1,562 SusWrite 837 360% 1,609 MB/s	4K Read 49.4 4K Write 74.5 4K Mixed 59.4 190% 61.1 MB/s	DQ Read 463 DQ Write 368 DQ Mixed 413 310% 415 MB/s
Poor: 178% ↑ This bench: 215% Great: 355%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 200GB free Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 916 917 918 918 920 920 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	192% Outstanding	Read 1,757 Write 924 Mixed 750 SusWrite 918 241% 1,088 MB/s	4K Read 39.1 4K Write 72.6 4K Mixed 44.3 154% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 488 DQ Write 322 DQ Mixed 376 288% 395 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 192% Great: 243%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C15 4x8GB 180 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 46.2 MC Write 40.1 MC Mixed 37.1 118% 41.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 19.9 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 72 56% 72 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 143%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 77%

Battleship

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	63x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	40x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	29x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	23x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	19x

Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $891

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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