Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	9.95% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	171% 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8279U 740 User benchmarks, average bench 74% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Memory 86.8 1-Core 112 2-Core 206 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 345 8-Core 440 50% 393 Pts	64-Core 453 28% 453 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 8,316 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Device(1E50 800C) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 30.0.101.1960 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	9.95% Terrible	Lighting 11.7 Reflection 11.4 Parallax 13.6 10% 12.2 fps	MRender 14 Gravity 12.4 Splatting 13.1 11% 13.2 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 9.95% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston OM8PDP3512B-A01 512GB 494 User benchmarks, average bench 179% 353GB free (System drive) Firmware: EDFK0S03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 704 419 87 276 244 72 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	171% Outstanding	Read 1302 Write 1116 Mixed 1,004 SusWrite 300 208% 931 MB/s	4K Read 49.8 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 63.8 230% 83.7 MB/s	DQ Read 832 DQ Write 509 DQ Mixed 686 507% 676 MB/s
Poor: 120% ↑ This bench: 171% Great: 222%
TOSHIBA EXTERNAL_USB 2TB 2,421 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1.5TB free, PID 0901 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 123 130 132 133 134 134 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	51.1% Above average	Read 144 Write 139 Mixed 20 SusWrite 131 140% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.4 34% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A1K43CB1-CTD 2x8GB 108,106 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 2667 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (100^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	95.2% Outstanding	MC Read 36.1 MC Write 45.4 MC Mixed 25 101% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 35.7 SC Mixed 18.1 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 70.6 57% 70.6 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 84%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 16%

Surfboard

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 14%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i5-8279UIntelBench 74%, 740 samples	75x
Core i5-8259UIntelBench 73%, 4,608 samples	12x

GPU
Iris Plus Graphics 655IntelBench 9%, 8,316 samples	87x

SSD
OM8PDP3512B-A01 512GBKingstonBench 179%, 494 samples	33x
OM8PDP3256B-A01 256GBKingstonBench 175%, 443 samples	25x
OM8PCP3512F-A02 512GBKingstonBench 161%, 155 samples	14x

RAM
CBD26D4S9S8K1C-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 84%, 292 samples	53x
M471A1K43CB1-CTD 2x8GBSamsungBench 76%, 108,106 samples	11x
CBD26D4S9S8K2A-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 77%, 27 samples	8x

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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