Asrock B550M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	125% 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	265% 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.

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Motherboard	Asrock B550M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20220224
Uptime	4.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 04 '23 at 18:38
Run Duration	230 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 3600-$85 1,072,639 User benchmarks, average bench 83% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 69.4 1-Core 111 2-Core 232 75% 138 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 740 70% 578 Pts	64-Core 990 61% 990 Pts
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti-$340 442,467 User benchmarks, average bench 128% Nvidia(10DE 2489) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 531.18 Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 171 Parallax 172 140% 172 fps	MRender 184 Gravity 131 Splatting 115 114% 143 fps
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 136%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Gigabyte Aorus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$80 15,656 User benchmarks, average bench 339% 212GB free (System drive) Firmware: EGFM13.2 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1310 885 847 701 716 638 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	265% Outstanding	Read 2,134 Write 3,481 Mixed 2,262 SusWrite 850 493% 2,182 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 170 4K Mixed 76.9 256% 97 MB/s	DQ Read 1,247 DQ Write 892 DQ Mixed 1,162 843% 1,100 MB/s
Poor: 215% ↑ This bench: 265% Great: 491%
SSD 240GB 240GB 5,968 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 122GB free Firmware: 20180606 SusWrite @10s intervals: 376 104 56 53 53 52 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	73.8% Very good	Read 371 Write 118 Mixed 283 SusWrite 116 49% 222 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 94.2 4K Mixed 30.8 132% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 319 DQ Mixed 171 157% 237 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 90%
Patriot Burst 480GB 16,899 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 162GB free Firmware: SBFM61.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 450 437 194 109 108 107 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	Read 484 Write 450 Mixed 370 SusWrite 234 86% 385 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 99.6 4K Mixed 44.1 168% 60.8 MB/s	DQ Read 304 DQ Write 354 DQ Mixed 233 202% 297 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 100%
Gamer BA1M0480N 480GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 151% 171GB free Firmware: EDFM00.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 548 396 234 553 385 552 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	138% Outstanding	Read 596 Write 541 Mixed 442 SusWrite 445 114% 506 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 172 4K Mixed 40.8 193% 81.9 MB/s	DQ Read 813 DQ Write 508 DQ Mixed 141 245% 487 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 223%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	63.4% Good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 16.1 MC Mixed 25.9 66% 23.1 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 15.3 SC Mixed 21.4 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 103 39% 103 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 97%

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Gaming 99%

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Desktop 103%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asrock B550M Steel Legend

CPU
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $110Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	632x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $85Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	341x
Ryzen 7 5800XAMD $180Bench 98%, 128,080 samples	247x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $250Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	201x
RTX 3070Nvidia $500Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	190x
RTX 3060-TiNvidia $340Bench 128%, 442,467 samples	163x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $86Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	68x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	67x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	59x

RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	74x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	62x
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	61x

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Value: 110% - Outstanding

Total price: $501

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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