Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	94.6% 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	84.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	74.1% Very good	Memory 82.7 1-Core 101 2-Core 198 73% 127 Pts	4-Core 354 8-Core 507 54% 430 Pts	64-Core 530 33% 530 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% Sapphire(1DA2 E37F) ≥ 4GB; Sapphire Nitro+ CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.4.3 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 91 Parallax 170 93% 125 fps	MRender 90.8 Gravity 128 Splatting 130 97% 116 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon IT LMT-128L9M 128GB 1,236 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: 201 SusWrite @10s intervals: 262 287 307 320 306 320 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Read 406 Write 298 Mixed 267 SusWrite 300 71% 318 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 59.9 4K Mixed 31.8 114% 39.8 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 293 DQ Mixed 200 184% 284 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 94%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 908GB free Firmware: 1A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 145 157 142 154 145 136 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Read 100 Write 127 Mixed 45.7 SusWrite 147 76% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.6 103% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 109%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 877GB free Firmware: 1A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 180 180 179 179 178 178 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 182 Mixed 129 SusWrite 179 122% 166 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 201% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73EB0-CK0 Kingston 99U5584-017.A00LF Kingston 99U5584-017.A00LF 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	52.8% Above average	MC Read 18.2 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 15.8 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 18.1 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 75.7 53% 75.7 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 56%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 19%

Surfboard

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 16%

Surfboard

SSD
IT LMT-256L9M 256GBLiteonBench 85%, 561 samples	80x
IT LMT-128L9M 128GBLiteonBench 81%, 1,236 samples	65x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x

RAM
HMT451U6AFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 52%, 14,558 samples	101x
HMT41GU6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 53%, 7,869 samples	87x
HMT451U6AFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 56%, 3,905 samples	66x

Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $135

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