Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	97.6% 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	228% 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.

Run History

15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 10 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 28 '23 at 00:29
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 113 2-Core 208 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 391 8-Core 590 61% 490 Pts	64-Core 587 36% 587 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060-$324 645,160 User benchmarks, average bench 90% Asus(1043 8698) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2250 MHz, MLim: 3800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 528.02 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	97.6% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 111 Parallax 114 101% 116 fps	MRender 145 Gravity 106 Splatting 94.6 92% 115 fps
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 97%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 265GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 886 1205 1224 1170 1148 1009 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	228% Outstanding	Read 1,695 Write 1,519 Mixed 762 SusWrite 1107 284% 1,271 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 96.4 4K Mixed 56.6 178% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 937 DQ Write 711 DQ Mixed 791 600% 813 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 228% Great: 302%
Seagate ST16000VE002-3BR101 16TB 1GB free Firmware: EV01 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples		Read 188 Write 176 Mixed 180 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 5.6 4K Mixed 0.9 2,058% 17 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3866 C18 2x8GB 206 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	83.1% Excellent	MC Read 31.5 MC Write 32.6 MC Mixed 23.9 84% 29.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 34.3 SC Mixed 24.7 74% 25.7 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 127%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,707x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,440x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	614x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,148x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	866x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	343x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $98Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	242x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	767x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	324x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	160x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $664

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16