Alienware Aurora R5

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 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 70.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	79.1% 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	118% 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

Run History

14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago, 14 months ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Alienware Aurora R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01NYPT
Memory	24.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20200616
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 28 '23 at 01:07
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	70.3% Very good	Memory 80.2 1-Core 105 2-Core 194 72% 126 Pts	4-Core 326 8-Core 573 54% 449 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5600-XT-$300 112,731 User benchmarks, average bench 83% XFX(1682 5710) Ram: 6GB, Driver: 22.20.27.06 Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.1% Very good	Lighting 99 Reflection 122 Parallax 145 81% 122 fps	MRender 94.1 Gravity 114 Splatting 76.6 76% 94.9 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Pc300 NVMe SK hynix 256GB 4,485 User benchmarks, average bench 119% 136GB free (System drive) Firmware: 20007A00 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 384 370 346 397 390 395 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	118% Outstanding	Read 877 Write 396 Mixed 428 SusWrite 380 115% 520 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 71.9 4K Mixed 34.4 116% 42.8 MB/s	DQ Read 665 DQ Write 414 DQ Mixed 501 384% 527 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 142%
Spcc Solid State Disk 1TB 23 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 931GB free Firmware: HPS2704M SusWrite @10s intervals: 330 357 375 404 393 418 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 1% Great: 65%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2011)-$75 18,569 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 109 111 110 110 113 110 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	58.9% Above average	Read 94.5 Write 87.7 Mixed 52.4 SusWrite 110 63% 86.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.7 143% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF Samsung M378A2K43BB1-CPB 32GB 30 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2133, 2133 MHz 16384, 16384 MB Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	38.9% Below average	MC Read 13.5 MC Write 13.9 MC Mixed 11.7 37% 13 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 12.7 SC Mixed 12.4 35% 12.1 GB/s	Latency 80.2 50% 80.2 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 77%

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Gaming 58%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 49%

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System: Alienware Aurora R5

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,047x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	377x
Core i5-6400Intel $75Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	246x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	595x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	316x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc300Bench 119%, 4,485 samples	132x
NVMe LITEON 256GBCx2-8b256-q11Bench 168%, 2,143 samples	129x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	50x

RAM
HMA82GU6MFR8N-TF 1x16GBHynixBench 39%, 5,448 samples	302x
16ATF2G64AZ-2G1B1 1x16GBMicronBench 39%, 1,618 samples	121x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	102x

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Value: 107% - Outstanding

Total price: $312

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $250	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16