Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
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	89.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90% Outstanding	Memory 95.8 1-Core 131 2-Core 259 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 676 70% 565 Pts	64-Core 674 42% 674 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.82 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 152 Parallax 131 116% 142 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 135 Splatting 106 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 156 132 125 122 116 114 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Read 502 Write 479 Mixed 448 SusWrite 127 87% 389 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 54.8 174% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 43.5 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 72.4 80% 128 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 128%
Plextor M6e PCIe M.2 256GB-$208 1,444 User benchmarks, average bench 117% 60GB free Firmware: 1.06 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 505 475 484 552 561 554 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 646 Write 513 Mixed 354 SusWrite 522 114% 509 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 68.8 4K Mixed 36.7 130% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 388 DQ Mixed 209 194% 296 MB/s
Poor: 87% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 129%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 528GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 129 130 131 131 132 132 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	67.7% Good	Read 105 Write 102 Mixed 60.8 SusWrite 131 73% 99.7 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.1 217% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	MC Read 30.2 MC Write 32.2 MC Mixed 26.9 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 23.3 SC Mixed 19.6 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 85%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	139x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	48x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $678

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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