Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	48.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 months ago, 3 months ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	3.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20201103
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 25 '24 at 15:51
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 2600-$155 179,588 User benchmarks, average bench 73% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	Memory 77.8 1-Core 110 2-Core 215 75% 134 Pts	4-Core 387 8-Core 604 61% 495 Pts	64-Core 813 50% 813 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 6600-XT-$301 21,558 User benchmarks, average bench 107% PowerColor(148C 2412) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 24.1.1 Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 109 Reflection 134 Parallax 218 89% 154 fps	MRender 218 Gravity 118 Splatting 180 141% 172 fps
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Green 240GB (2018)-$51 156,194 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 174GB free (System drive) Firmware: UF450000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 240 2.6 3.8 5.5 102 77 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	48.8% Average	Read 449 Write 364 Mixed 221 SusWrite 71.8 61% 276 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 36.5 4K Mixed 18.6 75% 25.4 MB/s	DQ Read 113 DQ Write 50.9 DQ Mixed 11 27% 58.2 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 55%
Apacer AS350 240GB 294 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 106GB free Firmware: Q0526A SusWrite @10s intervals: 447 452 456 455 451 452 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	118% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 459 Mixed 442 SusWrite 452 104% 464 MB/s	4K Read 39.2 4K Write 85.3 4K Mixed 52.1 171% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 386 DQ Write 357 DQ Mixed 133 165% 292 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 120%
Toshiba P300 1TB-$45 318,836 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 785GB free Firmware: MS2OA9A0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 181 176 177 180 176 182 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 159 Mixed 34.1 SusWrite 179 96% 133 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.7 159% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX3200C16D4/8GX KHX2666C16/8G 16GB 205 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42% Average	MC Read 16.1 MC Write 12.2 MC Mixed 13.7 40% 14 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 15.1 SC Mixed 14.2 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 88.3 45% 88.3 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 42% Great: 98%

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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	70	58	165	23.8"	1920 1017	AOC2402 24G2W1G3-

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $155Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $134Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	460x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	176x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	317x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16