Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	79.2% 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	113% 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

Run History

15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	24.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20200616
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 28 '23 at 01:15
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	68.8% Good	Memory 79.3 1-Core 102 2-Core 186 70% 122 Pts	4-Core 314 8-Core 564 53% 439 Pts	64-Core 564 35% 564 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5600-XT-$300 112,731 User benchmarks, average bench 83% XFX(1682 5710) Ram: 6GB, Driver: 22.20.27.06 Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.2% Very good	Lighting 99.1 Reflection 122 Parallax 144 81% 122 fps	MRender 94.7 Gravity 113 Splatting 77.2 76% 95.1 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Pc300 NVMe SK hynix 256GB 4,485 User benchmarks, average bench 119% 135GB free (System drive) Firmware: 20007A00 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 376 396 398 411 380 404 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 830 Write 404 Mixed 477 SusWrite 394 117% 526 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 63.4 4K Mixed 31.4 112% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 601 DQ Write 357 DQ Mixed 426 332% 461 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 142%
Spcc Solid State Disk 1TB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 931GB free Firmware: HPS2704M SusWrite @10s intervals: 307 387 389 422 422 422 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 1% Great: 55%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2011)-$75 18,569 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 926GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 109 112 110 110 113 110 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	61.4% Good	Read 104 Write 97.9 Mixed 54.8 SusWrite 110 67% 91.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.7 134% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF Samsung M378A2K43BB1-CPB 32GB 30 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2133, 2133 MHz 16384, 16384 MB Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	39.3% Below average	MC Read 13.4 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 11.7 37% 13.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.7 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 13.5 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 81.8 49% 81.8 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 39.3% Great: 77%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,052x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	377x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	249x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	600x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	317x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	132x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	129x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	304x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	122x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	103x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $448

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $50

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16