Alienware 15 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Raft	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	33.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	76.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware 15 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 15 R2
Memory	15.8 GB free of 20 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160707
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '16 at 15:57
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 81.4 1-Core 89.1 2-Core 179 68% 117 Pts	4-Core 362 8-Core 543 56% 453 Pts	64-Core 540 33% 540 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970M 21,995 User benchmarks, average bench 31% Dell(1028 0708) 3GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7595 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	33.6% Below average	Lighting 42.8 Reflection 39.5 Parallax 34.7 35% 39 fps	MRender 42.1 Gravity 37.4 Splatting 36 31% 38.5 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 33.6% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 137GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3147 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1384 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 26 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 94 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10771786180	76.2% Very good	Read 494 Write 380 Mixed 398 94% 424 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 59.8 4K Mixed 17.7 106% 37.2 MB/s	DQ Read 34.5 DQ Write 73.6 DQ Mixed 39.4 34% 49.2 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 122%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 165GB free Firmware: JB0OA3P0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 135 135 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1587 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2373 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 885 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 190 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 76169 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 236224249888 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 384 (F1) Unknown 100 100 35111672835 (F2) Unknown 100 100 35550879349 (FE) Unknown 100 100 6	49.1% Average	Read 89.1 Write 82 Mixed 70.2 60% 80.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.16 61% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451S6AFR8N-TF Micron 16ATF2G64HZ-2G1A1 20GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 16384 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.1% Good	MC Read 24.1 MC Write 25.2 MC Mixed 18.1 64% 22.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 17.2 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 78 51% 78 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 63%

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System: Alienware 15 R2

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	633x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	123x
Core i5-6300HQIntelBench 54%, 41,531 samples	120x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	486x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	172x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	95x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	213x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	34x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	24x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	235x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	113x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	76x

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Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16