Alienware 15 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	13% 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	59.7% 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 (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware 15 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 06D1WD
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180108
Uptime	12.3 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 16:56
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	69% Good	Memory 84.3 1-Core 87.6 2-Core 170 67% 114 Pts	4-Core 290 8-Core 506 48% 398 Pts	64-Core 537 33% 537 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970M 21,995 User benchmarks, average bench 31% Dell(1028 0708) 3GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.9077 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	13% Very poor	Lighting 7.1 Reflection 38.2 Parallax 33.8 6% 26.4 fps	MRender 28.1 Gravity 33.9 Splatting 35.2 27% 32.4 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 13% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc M.2 SSD 240GB 444 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM01.7 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4417 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1881 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (AA) Unknown 100 100 420 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5177494 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 63 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 1 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 14330	59.7% Above average	Read 492 Write 295 Mixed 33 59% 273 MB/s	4K Read 9.21 4K Write 28.3 4K Mixed 9.61 41% 15.7 MB/s	DQ Read 227 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 56.4 86% 163 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 99%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 101GB free Firmware: JB0OA3P0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 195 195 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 4348 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 4427 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1873 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 143520 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 210454577186 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 98 98 1220 (F1) Unknown 100 100 46863880681 (F2) Unknown 99 99 80838063881 (FE) Unknown 100 100 7	53.9% Above average	Read 79.1 Write 109 Mixed 82.4 68% 90.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.18 59% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905668-002.A00G 2x8GB 315 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	73.6% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.6 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 27.4 SC Mixed 20.7 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 72.9 55% 72.9 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 91%

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

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System: Alienware 15 R2

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	629x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	123x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	120x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	483x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	172x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	94x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	211x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	34x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	24x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	234x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	113x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	76x

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