HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	100% 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	57.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	128GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 128GB 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.

Run History

11 months ago, 11 months ago.

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	122.8 GB free of 128 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161017
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 08 '23 at 02:23
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2-$635 10,921 User benchmarks, average bench 76% CPU0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	77.6% Very good	Memory 80.9 1-Core 89.5 2-Core 196 70% 122 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 596 62% 498 Pts	64-Core 729 45% 729 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3791) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 531.79 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	100% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 139 Parallax 127 101% 130 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 132 Splatting 116 99% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
2E256-TU2-510B00 200GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: UIO6 SusWrite @10s intervals: 186 194 161 132 139 163 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	57.5% Above average	Read 449 Write 196 Mixed 261 SusWrite 162 59% 267 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 17.4 4K Mixed 19.7 76% 21.5 MB/s	DQ Read 221 DQ Write 73.6 DQ Mixed 88.4 81% 128 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 64%
2E256-TU2-510B00 200GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 150GB free Firmware: UIO6 SusWrite @10s intervals: 186 181 180 181 185 196 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	59% Above average	Read 443 Write 197 Mixed 262 SusWrite 185 60% 272 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 17.7 4K Mixed 20 76% 21.6 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 75.9 DQ Mixed 87.5 82% 131 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 64%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 36KSF2G72PZ-1G6E1 8x16GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 8 of 8 slots used 128GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	98.5% Outstanding	MC Read 41.4 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 37 111% 39 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 13.7 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 78.8 51% 78.8 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 102%

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

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 11%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,500x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	775x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	688x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	496x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	305x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	261x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	184x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	56x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16