HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	115% 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	37.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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.

Run History

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System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20191029
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 28 '20 at 14:01
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	SVN-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1620 0-$345 17,464 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 83.8 1-Core 95.3 2-Core 181 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 498 56% 439 Pts	64-Core 495 31% 495 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070S (Super)-$210 663,603 User benchmarks, average bench 115% Gigabyte(1458 4008) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 432.00 Performing below potential (45^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	115% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 145 Parallax 151 126% 150 fps	MRender 179 Gravity 124 Splatting 96.9 105% 133 fps
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 123%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk PLUS 480GB 233 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 307GB free (System drive) Firmware: 00RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 46 35 87 117 3.1 41 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	37.7% Below average	Read 394 Write 270 Mixed 114 SusWrite 54.7 46% 208 MB/s	4K Read 12.9 4K Write 9 4K Mixed 15.8 45% 12.6 MB/s	DQ Read 119 DQ Write 77.1 DQ Mixed 43.6 47% 79.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 9JSF25672AZ-1G6M1 Hynix HMT325U7CFR8C-PB 9JSF25672AZ-1G6M1 Hynix HMT325U7CFR8C-PB Hynix HMT325U7CFR8C-PB 9JSF25672AZ-1G6M1 Hynix HMT325U7CFR8C-PB 9JSF25672A... 16GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	88.6% Excellent	MC Read 32.8 MC Write 37.9 MC Mixed 33.1 99% 34.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 12.4 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 73.8 54% 73.8 ns
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 89%

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Gaming 12%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 11%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,526x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	791x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	699x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	500x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	309x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	263x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	185x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	129x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	113x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	58x
HMT41GU7AFR8C-RD 4x8GBHynixBench 89%, 207 samples	56x

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