Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 73.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	106% 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	120% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	53.8 GB free of 64 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	3.7 Days
Run Date	Jul 07 '18 at 02:04
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	Memory 86.9 1-Core 90.5 2-Core 183 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 323 8-Core 599 55% 461 Pts	64-Core 992 61% 992 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.36 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 156 Reflection 106 Parallax 99.6 127% 121 fps	MRender 89.4 Gravity 92.2 Splatting 83 72% 88.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 361GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 458 406 343 333 328 343 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	Read 488 Write 457 Mixed 410 SusWrite 369 97% 431 MB/s	4K Read 43.5 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 59.2 200% 70.9 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 356 268% 358 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%
Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB 220 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 19 19 20 20 19 20 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	15.5% Very poor	Read 37.8 Write 38 Mixed 37.2 SusWrite 19.5 7% 33.1 MB/s	4K Read 11.6 4K Write 13 4K Mixed 11 38% 11.9 MB/s	DQ Read 19.1 DQ Write 20.1 DQ Mixed 15.4 13% 18.2 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 15.5% Great: 97%
WD My Passport 25E2 4TB 31,793 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 983GB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 16 16 17 15 16 17 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	11.6% Very poor	Read 34.5 Write 33.8 Mixed 28 SusWrite 16.1 37% 28.1 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.2 42% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 11.6% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x16GB 2,982 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 3000 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (87^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	109% Outstanding	MC Read 46.1 MC Write 42 MC Mixed 41 123% 43 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 20 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 129%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 88%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 88%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 79%

Battleship

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	40x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	20x

RAM
+ + 4x8GBUnknownBench 109%, 462 samples	30x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	22x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x

Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $744

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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