Asus PRIME B550M-A

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.3% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME B550M-A (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20210615
Uptime	3.9 Days
Run Date	Jul 24 '21 at 20:37
Run Duration	274 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (43^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 5600X-$153 383,420 User benchmarks, average bench 96% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	90% Excellent	Memory 75 1-Core 158 2-Core 295 94% 176 Pts	4-Core 563 8-Core 866 88% 714 Pts	64-Core 1,057 65% 1,057 Pts
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 107%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6390) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 461.72 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	85.3% Excellent	Lighting 88.3 Reflection 212 Parallax 141 72% 147 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 166 Splatting 118 111% 138 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 320 Series 120GB-$89 9,651 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 45GB free Firmware: 4PC10362 SusWrite @10s intervals: 134 132 133 133 129 130 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	46.8% Average	Read 250 Write 126 Mixed 138 SusWrite 132 36% 161 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 38.7 4K Mixed 21.6 77% 26.4 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 82.9 DQ Mixed 69.6 63% 97.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 48%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 999GB 7,881 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 754GB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 1283 1265 1250 1291 1240 1278 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 47% Great: 127%
WD Green 1.5TB (2009)-$150 16,916 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 989GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.00A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 32 38 39 39 43 36 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	13.8% Very poor	Read 9.7 Write 20.7 Mixed 26.2 SusWrite 38 18% 23.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.2 63% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 13.8% Great: 55%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2TB free Firmware: JKAOA20N SusWrite @10s intervals: 121 121 121 120 121 122 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	67.6% Good	Read 115 Write 123 Mixed 59.3 SusWrite 121 76% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.6 126% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata DDR4 2666 2OZ 2x8GB 9,905 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	66.8% Good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 16 MC Mixed 26.6 67% 23.6 GB/s	SC Read 22.4 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 26.6 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 90.3 44% 90.3 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 97%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

SkillBench Score 43: 3R 6G 10B (High Scores)

Measures user input accuracy relative to the given hardware

Score	Hit Rate	Shots	EFps	0.1% Low	Refresh Rate	Screen	Resolution	Monitor
43%	61%	31	337	272	60	23"	1920 1080	ACR06CA SB230

History: Score 10: 1R 1G 2B | Score 43: 3R 6G 10B

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B550M-A

CPU
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $153Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	636x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	431x
Ryzen 5 5600GAMD $137Bench 86%, 14,368 samples	204x

GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia $279Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	231x
RTX 3060-TiNvidia $340Bench 128%, 442,467 samples	179x
RTX 3070Nvidia $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	147x

SSD
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBWD $74Bench 228%, 180,890 samples	73x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $68Bench 224%, 92,081 samples	66x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	97x
KF3200C16D4/8GX 2x8GBKingstonBench 88%, 58,684 samples	78x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 89%, 34,561 samples	61x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $551

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $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