HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 75.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12.5% 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	41.6% 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.

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Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.8 GHz
Display	2048 x 1152 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130509
Uptime	6.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '17 at 22:07
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	SVN-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1620 0-$345 17,464 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	75.3% Very good	Memory 87.6 1-Core 89.3 2-Core 193 71% 123 Pts	4-Core 342 8-Core 477 52% 410 Pts	64-Core 481 30% 481 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% MSI(1462 2520) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	12.5% Very poor	Lighting 16.1 Reflection 12.7 Parallax 14.3 13% 14.4 fps	MRender 11.1 Gravity 11.3 Splatting 17 11% 13.2 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 12.5% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba Q300 240GB-$85 5,005 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6581 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 444 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 196 196 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C2) HDA temperature 69 62 163209543711	41.6% Average	Read 344 Write 195 Mixed 198 54% 246 MB/s	4K Read 18.9 4K Write 25.8 4K Mixed 6.2 50% 17 MB/s	DQ Read 22.9 DQ Write 49.9 DQ Mixed 5.94 13% 26.2 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 93%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$35 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 235GB free Firmware: 18.01H18 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 138 137 4100 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 613 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2744 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 437 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 50 555745313 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 567 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	58.2% Above average	Read 99.9 Write 103 Mixed 74.7 69% 92.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.35 97% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 69%
WD 5000BPV External 500GB 360 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 113GB free, PID 1010 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	12.9% Very poor	Read 27.6 Write 22.6 Mixed 23.4 31% 24.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.14 49% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 12.9% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT451U7AFR8C-RD HMT451U7AFR8C-RD HMT451U7BFR8C-RD HMT451U7BFR8C-RD 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1778, 1778, 1778, 1778 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	74.6% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 31.8 MC Mixed 26.7 82% 28.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 13 SC Mixed 11 36% 12.5 GB/s	Latency 69.9 57% 69.9 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 75%

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

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,496x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	772x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	685x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	494x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	304x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	260x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	183x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	56x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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