Asus PRIME A520M-K

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (9th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 91 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 72%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	184% 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.

Very high background CPU (56%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME A520M-K (all builds)
Memory	7.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20230224
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '24 at 03:31
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	56%

PC Performing way below expectations (9^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 5600G-$105 14,368 User benchmarks, average bench 86% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	72% Very good	Memory 42.5 1-Core 151 2-Core 249 77% 147 Pts	4-Core 541 8-Core 947 90% 744 Pts	64-Core 1,148 71% 1,148 Pts
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 99%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega 8 5000 (iGPU) 140,621 User benchmarks, average bench 17% Asus(1043 8809) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 23.11.1 Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	12.7% Very poor	Lighting 15.2 Reflection 15.4 Parallax 23.2 12% 17.9 fps	MRender 5.9 Gravity 20.9 Splatting 19.5 13% 15.4 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 12.7% Great: 21%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Solidigm SSDPFKNU010TZ 1TB 2,045 User benchmarks, average bench 286% 244GB free (System drive) Firmware: 002C SusWrite @10s intervals: 176 134 490 197 208 191 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	184% Outstanding	Read 2,076 Write 1,694 Mixed 1,128 SusWrite 233 285% 1,283 MB/s	4K Read 54 4K Write 76.7 4K Mixed 63.5 204% 64.7 MB/s	DQ Read 848 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 286 270% 440 MB/s
Poor: 180% ↑ This bench: 184% Great: 389%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown SM4U660A8ADHC 1x16GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Relative performance (0^th percentile)	26.3% Poor	MC Read 9.5 MC Write 9.8 MC Mixed 9.8 28% 9.7 GB/s	SC Read 4.5 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 5.6 18% 6.17 GB/s	Latency 192 21% 192 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 26.3% Great: 55%

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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	45	14	144	23.8"	1920 1009	ACR0852 XF243Y P

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 22%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME A520M-K

CPU
Ryzen 5 5600GAMD $105Bench 86%, 14,368 samples	268x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $78Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	207x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $120Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	186x

GPU
RX Vega 8 5000 (iGPU)AMDBench 17%, 140,621 samples	185x
RTX 3060Nvidia $253Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	99x
RX Vega 8 4000 (iGPU)AMDBench 13%, 162,082 samples	86x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	55x
SNV2S1000G 1TBKingstonBench 260%, 75,739 samples	42x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	41x

RAM
KF3200C16D4/8GX 2x8GBKingstonBench 88%, 58,684 samples	78x
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	50x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x

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