Gigabyte GA-A55M-DS2

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 60% Gunboat	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 51.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	27.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	36.1% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-A55M-DS2 (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120424
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 28 '18 at 21:30
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A8-3870 APU-$81 6,332 User benchmarks, average bench 47% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	51.4% Above average	Memory 76.6 1-Core 45.2 2-Core 89.9 46% 70.6 Pts	4-Core 160 8-Core 126 20% 143 Pts	64-Core 142 9% 142 Pts
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 56%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950-$100 111,509 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Asus(1043 8554) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	27.9% Poor	Lighting 34.5 Reflection 33.9 Parallax 30.2 28% 32.9 fps	MRender 37.3 Gravity 31.9 Splatting 32.4 28% 33.9 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z33130RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 3769 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (A5) Unknown 100 100 8633713189 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 53 201863462956 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 785982292151 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 420 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2573 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1437 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1078 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	36.1% Below average	Read 222 Write 172 Mixed 112 37% 168 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 45.2 4K Mixed 4.39 55% 22.1 MB/s	DQ Read 19.3 DQ Write 49.3 DQ Mixed 3.88 12% 24.1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 78%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$78 30,011 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1.5TB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 87 (03) Spinup time 127 127 38686818792 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 479 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 123 123 31 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 34319 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 44 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 579 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 579 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 201864511529 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 40% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 12GB 85,415 User benchmarks, average bench 35% null MHz 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	27.4% Poor	MC Read 11.1 MC Write 8.3 MC Mixed 8.7 27% 9.37 GB/s	SC Read 6 SC Write 5.8 SC Mixed 6.4 17% 6.07 GB/s	Latency 87.1 46% 87.1 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 27.4% Great: 50%

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

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Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A55M-DS2 - $73

CPU
A4-3300 APUAMD $90Bench 35%, 2,884 samples	25x
A8-3870 APUAMD $81Bench 47%, 6,332 samples	18x
A6-3500 APUAMD $60Bench 39%, 2,804 samples	15x

GPU
Radeon HD 6410DAMDBench 2%, 3,128 samples	22x
Radeon HD 6530DAMDBench 3%, 4,675 samples	12x
Radeon HD 6550DAMDBench 4%, 4,197 samples	8x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	3x
PM830 128GBSamsungBench 61%, 13,767 samples	2x
SSD 120GBBench 68%, 22,748 samples	2x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	28x
1x4GBUnknownBench 28%, 154,807 samples	20x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	11x

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Value: 42% - Average

Total price: $190

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Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16