Asus X99-A

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	12.3% 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	67.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus X99-A (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140915
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 03 '18 at 01:36
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 123 2-Core 240 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 750 74% 604 Pts	64-Core 969 60% 969 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD FirePro V7900 (FireGL V) 595 User benchmarks, average bench 14% AMD(1002 0B00) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	12.3% Very poor	Lighting 12.9 Reflection 19.7 Parallax 17.9 10% 16.8 fps	MRender 18.7 Gravity 12.6 Splatting 24.3 16% 18.5 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 12.3% Great: 19%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow KC300 480GB-$85 712 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 415GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507KC4 SusWrite @10s intervals: 231 257 237 233 251 249 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	67.7% Good	Read 354 Write 226 Mixed 291 SusWrite 243 62% 279 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 26.1 4K Mixed 29.3 102% 29.7 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 87.7 DQ Mixed 114 96% 143 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GB 1,850 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	99.9% Outstanding	MC Read 38 MC Write 40.6 MC Mixed 35.2 108% 37.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 22.8 SC Mixed 22.2 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 102%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Asus X99-A - $240

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	1,232x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	326x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	32x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	27x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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