Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 75%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% 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	62% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Oct 22 '23 at 02:44
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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-$219 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	75% Very good	Memory 84 1-Core 105 2-Core 179 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 356 8-Core 594 58% 475 Pts	64-Core 609 38% 609 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 537.58 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 134 Parallax 143 104% 135 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 132 Splatting 115 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 SusWrite @10s intervals: 210 73 38 66 56 52 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	62% Good	Read 452 Write 366 Mixed 105 SusWrite 82.5 56% 251 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 56.2 4K Mixed 18.5 94% 33.8 MB/s	DQ Read 252 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 110 121% 202 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 82%
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 70GB free Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 1,836 Write 1,248 Mixed 1,422 333% 1,502 MB/s	4K Read 45.3 4K Write 88.2 4K Mixed 59.8 192% 64.4 MB/s	DQ Read 836 DQ Write 484 DQ Mixed 660 492% 660 MB/s
Poor: 199% Great: 340%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 2.5TB 34 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2TB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 194 204 201 203 202 202 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 147 Mixed 78.2 SusWrite 201 114% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.7 142% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 102%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 999GB 64,984 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 930GB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 182 186 186 186 185 185 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 71.7 Mixed 70.3 SusWrite 185 92% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.7 143% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1913 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	60.5% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 18.4 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 15.2 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 71 56% 71 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

SkillBench Score 0: 0P 0R 0G 0B (High Scores)

Measures user input accuracy relative to the given hardware

Score	Hit Rate	Shots	EFps	0.1% Low	Refresh Rate	Screen	Resolution	Monitor
0%	0%	0	57	30	60	23.5"	1280 720	AOC2475 2475W

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,729x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,448x
Core i7-6700KIntel $219Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	618x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,154x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	874x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	817x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	374x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	347x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	769x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	329x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	161x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $664

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	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 $95	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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