Asus Z170-P

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (23rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 77 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	95.1% 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	151% 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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-P (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	10.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 03 '20 at 15:52
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	69% Good	Memory 67.5 1-Core 108 2-Core 211 71% 129 Pts	4-Core 382 8-Core 533 58% 458 Pts	64-Core 614 38% 614 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$250 254,908 User benchmarks, average bench 98% Sapphire(1DA2 E411) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.9.2 Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.1% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 134 Parallax 200 99% 152 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 122 Splatting 92.2 87% 108 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 44,403 User benchmarks, average bench 196% 186GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXY7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 622 418 405 406 401 400 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	151% Outstanding	Read 877 Write 696 Mixed 547 SusWrite 442 143% 640 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 76.6 4K Mixed 59.2 156% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 1,033 DQ Write 700 DQ Mixed 810 620% 847 MB/s
Poor: 126% ↑ This bench: 151% Great: 259%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 756GB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 144 143 143 143 142 141 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	78.9% Very good	Read 131 Write 126 Mixed 29 SusWrite 142 77% 107 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 1.9 349% 2.7 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 614GB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 168 171 173 169 173 174 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Read 145 Write 104 Mixed 74 SusWrite 171 90% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.7 137% 1 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT8G4DFS824A.C8FBD1 2x8GB 2,796 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 19.6 MC Mixed 18.2 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 14.4 SC Mixed 11.7 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 108 37% 108 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 88%

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

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Typical Z170-P Builds (Compare 4,211 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 67%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-P - $119

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,141x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	926x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	530x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	551x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	536x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	293x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	197x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	165x
750 EVO 250GBSamsung $130Bench 94%, 75,831 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	129x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $531

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16