Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	143% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte Default string
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X99-Gaming 5P (all builds)
Memory	28.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180615
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 23 '19 at 11:36
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	SAU-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 above expectations (67^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 97.2 2-Core 190 75% 127 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 712 65% 547 Pts	64-Core 1036 64% 1036 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 419.17 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 104 Parallax 83.2 87% 97.9 fps	MRender 99.2 Gravity 108 Splatting 86.6 79% 97.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 87%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 198GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 560 564 566 560 560 561 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	143% Outstanding	Read 702 Write 557 Mixed 480 SusWrite 562 129% 575 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 50.5 178% 63.7 MB/s	DQ Read 776 DQ Write 374 DQ Mixed 438 362% 530 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 143% Great: 283%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 4x8GB-$165 7,179 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	122% Outstanding	MC Read 53.5 MC Write 43.4 MC Mixed 46.9 137% 47.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 18.5 SC Mixed 21.1 53% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 59.5 67% 59.5 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 118%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 99%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 87%

Aircraft carrier

SSD
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $68Bench 224%, 92,081 samples	11x
MZVLB512HBJQ-000L2 512GBSamsungBench 242%, 17,400 samples	6x
MX500 250GBCrucial $40Bench 101%, 77,177 samples	6x

RAM
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 91%, 1,779 samples	5x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	4x
BLE8G4D26AFEA.16FAD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 2,922 samples	4x

Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $682

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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