Alienware 17 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	100% 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	145% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	Alienware 17 R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R4
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171211
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 02 '18 at 01:21
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 133 2-Core 242 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 740 73% 595 Pts	64-Core 727 45% 727 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080 (Mobile) 17,197 User benchmarks, average bench 95% Dell(1028 07C2) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (77^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	100% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 146 Parallax 119 103% 131 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 125 Splatting 109 95% 117 fps
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 19,561 User benchmarks, average bench 122% 338GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5KDA4101 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	145% Outstanding	Read 1,558 Write 576 Mixed 642 202% 926 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 83.5 4K Mixed 28.5 132% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 41 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 122 114% 166 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 145% Great: 170%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 281GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 126 126 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1097 (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 98 98 1032 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 795 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 80 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 22449 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 197569019931 (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 100 100 172 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10064230263 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5779995431 (FE) Unknown 100 100 1	61.1% Good	Read 109 Write 104 Mixed 105 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.18 68% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GB 4,851 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 25.7 83% 29 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 33.1 SC Mixed 26.5 74% 25.9 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 82%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 49%

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Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation 41%

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System: Alienware 17 R4

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	1,206x
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	755x
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	528x

GPU
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	966x
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	561x
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	436x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	191x
X400 M.2 2280 128GBSandiskBench 65%, 12,357 samples	153x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	131x

RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 27,567 samples	780x
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,851 samples	190x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,951 samples	176x

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Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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