Alienware Aurora R6

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 74%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	124% 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	113% 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.

Very high background CPU (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R6 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 07HV66
Memory	57.4 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180502
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 15 '18 at 04:08
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	54%

PC Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	74% Very good	Memory 78.5 1-Core 103 2-Core 180 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 647 62% 511 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan Xp 8,552 User benchmarks, average bench 128% Nvidia(10DE 123F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 417.22 Performing below potential (32^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 168 Reflection 186 Parallax 175 137% 176 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 183 Splatting 130 117% 144 fps
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 140%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 248GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 361 326 327 330 309 310 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 392 Write 370 Mixed 343 SusWrite 327 81% 358 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 59 195% 68.1 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 337 259% 352 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 38GB free Firmware: MX4OAC70 SusWrite @10s intervals: 54 52 10 27 38 70 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	22.9% Poor	Read 37.7 Write 71.7 Mixed 37.5 SusWrite 41.8 35% 47.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.2 61% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 22.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2400C15/16G Hynix HMA82GU6AFR8N-UH KHX2400C15/16G KHX2400C15/16G 64GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 16384, 16384, 16384, 16384 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	72.1% Very good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 23.9 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 28.9 SC Mixed 20.7 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 83.4 48% 83.4 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 76%

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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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Gaming 64%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 55%

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System: Alienware Aurora R6

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	1,336x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	454x
Core i5-7400Intel $92Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	261x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	697x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	462x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	390x
THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshibaBench 122%, 19,561 samples	58x
PC300 SK hy 256GBNvmeBench 113%, 3,798 samples	48x

RAM
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 74%, 20,415 samples	228x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 7,552 samples	158x
HMA82GU6AFR8N-UH 1x16GBHynixBench 43%, 3,066 samples	75x

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Value: 112% - Outstanding

Total price: $299

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $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