Dell XPS 8900

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 80.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	76.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell XPS 8900 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0XJ8C4
Memory	41.3 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160506
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 03 '17 at 05:40
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	Memory 79.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 221 77% 138 Pts	4-Core 440 8-Core 632 67% 536 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3730) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 155 Parallax 132 114% 143 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 134 Splatting 112 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD WDS100T1B0A-00H9 1TB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 319GB free (System drive) Firmware: X411 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2553 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 220 (A5) Unknown 100 100 16777420 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8 (A9) Unknown 100 100 760 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 68 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 67 287764447269 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 249109938234 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2718 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4439 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3856 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3157 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	76.5% Very good	Read 490 Write 252 Mixed 248 72% 330 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 17.5 104% 38.3 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 42.3 88% 182 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 85%
Toshib MG04ACA400N 4TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 3TB free Firmware: FJ2D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6874 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 971 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 2536 (0A) Spinup retry count 119 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 205 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 57 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2640 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 201864904747 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2649793845 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2273193539	97.3% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 168 Mixed 167 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.32 92% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 103% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 110%
Generic- SD/MMC 64GB 716 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 59GB free, PID 6362 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	23.8% Poor	Read 39.5 Write 38.2 Mixed 38.8 50% 38.9 MB/s	4K Read 5.85 4K Write 2.72 4K Mixed 1.65 170% 3.41 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 23.8% Great: 23%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 48GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 16384, 16384, 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.9% Good	MC Read 24.6 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 23.5 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 21.1 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 81.9 49% 81.9 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 74%

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Desktop 72%

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Workstation 13%

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System: Dell XPS 8900

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	2,138x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	466x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	174x

GPU
GTX 745 (OEM)Nvidia $60Bench 10%, 26,874 samples	518x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	349x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	239x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	71x
L8H-256V2G-11 M.2 2280 256GBLiteonBench 75%, 1,826 samples	67x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	525x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 4,057 samples	227x
M378A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 72%, 8,407 samples	160x

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Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $370

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 $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16