Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 70% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 71.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	8.12% 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	162% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700-$195 144,475 User benchmarks, average bench 69% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	Memory 70.9 1-Core 99.4 2-Core 196 68% 122 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 696 65% 540 Pts	64-Core 1,022 63% 1,022 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 260-$250 11,945 User benchmarks, average bench 7% Gainward(10B0 0801) 896MB Ram: 896MB, Driver: 341.74 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	8.12% Terrible	Lighting 11.4 Reflection 13.1 Parallax 5 9% 9.83 fps	MRender 9.9 Gravity 9.1 Splatting 3.9 6% 7.63 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 8.12% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 493 217 211 207 206 203 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	162% Outstanding	Read 1,862 Write 1427 Mixed 610 SusWrite 256 229% 1,039 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 83.4 4K Mixed 43.1 155% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 686 DQ Write 416 DQ Mixed 500 386% 534 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 162% Great: 236%
WL250GLSA1672B 250GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 133GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 79 77 78 79 80 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42.7% Average	Read 69.6 Write 65.5 Mixed 57.4 SusWrite 78.6 50% 67.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 182% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 42.7% Great: 43%
WD Black 500GB (2008)-$95 28,095 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 237GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 77 76 75 77 78 78 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	48.7% Average	Read 92.5 Write 91.8 Mixed 72.2 SusWrite 77 62% 83.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1 184% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR4 3000 2x8GB 77,202 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	MC Read 36.5 MC Write 32.8 MC Mixed 29.9 94% 33.1 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 25.2 73% 25.5 GB/s	Latency 99.2 40% 99.2 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 104%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 70%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 64%

Destroyer

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	26x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	22x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	22x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	41x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	34x

Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $665

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16