Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.4% 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	208% 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	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

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200713
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '20 at 05:31
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X-$120 142,983 User benchmarks, average bench 74% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 82 1-Core 125 2-Core 249 84% 152 Pts	4-Core 491 8-Core 793 79% 642 Pts	64-Core 992 61% 992 Pts
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-56-$170 92,053 User benchmarks, average bench 78% MSI(1462 3681) CLim: 1707 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.8.1 Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.4% Very good	Lighting 89.5 Reflection 85.7 Parallax 138 73% 104 fps	MRender 83.8 Gravity 93.6 Splatting 119 83% 98.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 85%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC PC SN730 SDBQNTY-256G-1001 256GB 6,246 User benchmarks, average bench 164% 199GB free (System drive) Firmware: 11110101 SusWrite @10s intervals: 532 504 504 505 505 507 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	208% Outstanding	Read 1,631 Write 2,087 Mixed 1,545 SusWrite 509 325% 1,443 MB/s	4K Read 49.6 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 71.3 244% 89.3 MB/s	DQ Read 1,018 DQ Write 574 DQ Mixed 447 426% 680 MB/s
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 208% Great: 228%
Sandisk SD9SN8W512G 500GB 89 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 435GB free Firmware: X61110RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 477 421 410 412 425 417 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 491 Mixed 409 SusWrite 427 104% 460 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 98.2 4K Mixed 50.1 174% 62.2 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 341 DQ Mixed 291 237% 336 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 117%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$171 37,802 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 41 MC Write 40.1 MC Mixed 33.2 109% 38.1 GB/s	SC Read 26.7 SC Write 39.1 SC Mixed 30.8 92% 32.2 GB/s	Latency 76.9 52% 76.9 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 104%

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

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,918x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	826x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $119Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	606x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $296Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	460x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	176x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	318x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $497

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16