Alienware Area-51 R3

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	108% 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	177% 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0XF4NJ
Memory	20.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180907
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 21 '19 at 18:12
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen TR 1950X-$225 23,641 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SP3r2, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	68% Good	Memory 61.9 1-Core 108 2-Core 214 69% 128 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 725 67% 562 Pts	64-Core 2,240 139% 2,240 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% MSI(1462 3732) CLim: 2190 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 445.23 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 129 Parallax 129 114% 133 fps	MRender 151 Gravity 131 Splatting 104 102% 128 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 612 443 434 429 422 421 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	177% Outstanding	Read 1882 Write 1,615 Mixed 1,258 SusWrite 460 291% 1,304 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 53.3 4K Mixed 43.5 146% 45.9 MB/s	DQ Read 626 DQ Write 647 DQ Mixed 549 437% 607 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 177% Great: 340%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 117 116 121 120 118 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	67.3% Good	Read 116 Write 131 Mixed 91.9 SusWrite 118 84% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.9 178% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston XJ69DF-HYA XJ69DF-HYA KHX2933C17D4/8G KHX2933C17D4/8G 32GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	MC Read 53.5 MC Write 52.8 MC Mixed 52.6 151% 53 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 33.2 SC Mixed 20.7 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 122 33% 122 ns
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 119%

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System: Alienware Area-51 R3

CPU
Ryzen TR 1950XAMD $225Bench 77%, 23,641 samples	19x
Ryzen TR 1900XAMD $110Bench 76%, 7,071 samples	6x
Ryzen TR 1920XAMD $800Bench 78%, 10,440 samples	4x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	13x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	5x
RTX 3070Nvidia $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	2x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshiba $46Bench 145%, 33,719 samples	6x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsungBench 225%, 6,967 samples	5x
670p NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBIntel $550Bench 327%, 3,198 samples	2x

RAM
16ATF2G64AZ-2G6H1 4x16GBMicronBench 122%, 84 samples	9x
HMA82GU6CJR8N-VK 2x16GBHynixBench 84%, 1,261 samples	3x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x16GBG.SKILL $139Bench 95%, 14,506 samples	2x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $756

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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