Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	115% 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	68.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (25%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 84.4 1-Core 97.6 2-Core 169 69% 117 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 554 57% 462 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.8 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 143 Parallax 140 129% 147 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 140 Splatting 111 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$80 762,998 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 109GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 132 124 113 111 109 105 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	68.5% Good	Read 436 Write 117 Mixed 172 SusWrite 116 46% 210 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 65 4K Mixed 28.3 108% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 208 163% 233 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 129%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 434GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 154 151 152 156 156 155 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Read 140 Write 117 Mixed 78.5 SusWrite 154 90% 122 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1.1 222% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 178 177 176 178 177 178 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 144 Mixed 73.8 SusWrite 177 104% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 150% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4 2800 2OZ 4x8GB 829 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	63.3% Good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 19.2 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 19.1 SC Mixed 18.2 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 72.8 55% 72.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 111%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 47%

Yacht

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 42%

Speed boat

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	23x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	21x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	20x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A1 2x8GBMicronBench 68%, 1,302 samples	15x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	14x

Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $457

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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