Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.6% 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	114% 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.

Very high background CPU (87%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.4% Outstanding	Memory 91.6 1-Core 137 2-Core 268 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 545 8-Core 800 84% 672 Pts	64-Core 1,032 64% 1,032 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 419.17 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 115 Parallax 96.8 84% 105 fps	MRender 99.1 Gravity 99.2 Splatting 105 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 140GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 278 296 285 295 286 270 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 472 Mixed 370 SusWrite 285 91% 405 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 56.2 197% 70.7 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 359 268% 355 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 390GB free Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 2219 643 617 617 618 614 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	310% Outstanding	Read 2,505 Write 2,159 Mixed 1,384 SusWrite 888 387% 1,734 MB/s	4K Read 65.4 4K Write 166 4K Mixed 89.7 302% 107 MB/s	DQ Read 1,474 DQ Write 1,302 DQ Mixed 1,348 1,022% 1,374 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 310% Great: 340%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 190 192 191 192 183 191 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 132 Mixed 85.5 SusWrite 190 109% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.8 153% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4X8GD3000C16K4 2x8GB 669 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.5% Good	MC Read 27 MC Write 25.2 MC Mixed 20.2 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 16 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 102%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 55%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $51Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	300x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	295x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	271x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	456x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	285x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	272x

Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $500

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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