Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 72.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% 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	105% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	6.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 720 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171213
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 11:52
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	33%

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PC Performing as expected (49^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-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	72.5% Very good	Memory 78.1 1-Core 95.8 2-Core 187 69% 120 Pts	4-Core 360 8-Core 641 60% 500 Pts	64-Core 635 39% 635 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 139 Parallax 123 107% 131 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 126 Splatting 102 91% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 13,766 User benchmarks, average bench 120% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXV7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 1,206 Write 152 Mixed 223 112% 527 MB/s	4K Read 34.3 4K Write 98.7 4K Mixed 21.1 131% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 76.2 90% 159 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 147%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 50595736 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 638 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2316831 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2590 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 332 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 54 723124264 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11466 (C2) HDA temperature 40 46 68719476776 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -117106578291055 (F1) Unknown 100 253 647229949 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4636219099	108% Outstanding	Read 203 Write 176 Mixed 157 134% 178 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.23 89% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GB 5,448 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.3% Below average	MC Read 13.9 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 11.6 38% 13.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 10.9 SC Mixed 11 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 84.2 48% 84.2 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 42%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,039x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	375x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	246x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	590x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	313x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	129x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	128x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	300x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	120x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	101x

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Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $312

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16