Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	44.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (50%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 123 2-Core 231 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 488 8-Core 488 65% 488 Pts	64-Core 492 30% 492 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$130 360,351 User benchmarks, average bench 52% XFX(1682 C580) CLim: 1400 MHz, MLim: 2100 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.6.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.2% Good	Lighting 77 Reflection 71.4 Parallax 91.1 63% 79.8 fps	MRender 73.5 Gravity 72.7 Splatting 60 55% 68.7 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: S9FM02.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 66 62 70 64 66 67 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	44.7% Average	Read 387 Write 72.2 Mixed 91.1 SusWrite 65.8 33% 154 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 49.3 4K Mixed 10 70% 26.6 MB/s	DQ Read 127 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 5.5 34% 78 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 83%
WD Black 500GB (2012)-$47 20,548 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 207GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 119 119 117 119 118 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	79.9% Very good	Read 160 Write 157 Mixed 64.7 SusWrite 118 91% 125 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.7 141% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 105%
WD Black 2.5" 320GB (2010)-$45 23,554 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 133GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 88 88 89 88 90 89 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	49.6% Average	Read 84.3 Write 83.8 Mixed 58.6 SusWrite 88.6 58% 78.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.7 129% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 3x4GB 1,256 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	51.2% Above average	MC Read 17.6 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 15.4 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 16.6 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 62.7 64% 62.7 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 68%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 37%

Jet ski

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

Raft

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	310x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	269x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	237x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	90x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	86x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	81x

Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $581

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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