Dell Precision 5520

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.3% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	253% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Dell Precision 5520 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 06X96V
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161228
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 05 '17 at 17:02
Run Duration	86 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 4,124 User benchmarks, average bench 70% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Memory 86.7 1-Core 108 2-Core 214 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 352 8-Core 480 52% 416 Pts	64-Core 481 30% 481 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro M1200 4,250 User benchmarks, average bench 15% Dell(1028 07BF) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.6956 Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	14.3% Very poor	Lighting 18.3 Reflection 13.8 Parallax 15.8 15% 16 fps	MRender 20.2 Gravity 14.5 Splatting 13.8 13% 16.2 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 14.3% Great: 16%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB 4,056 User benchmarks, average bench 250% 799GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXA7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	253% Outstanding	Read 2,672 Write 1,621 Mixed 2,049 468% 2,114 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 24 128% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 34.9 DQ Write 386 DQ Mixed 123 121% 181 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 253% Great: 331%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 5,417 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	MC Read 29.7 MC Write 29.5 MC Mixed 26 81% 28.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 31.5 SC Mixed 26.5 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 87%

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

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System: Dell Precision 5520

CPU
Core i7-7820HQIntelBench 63%, 15,851 samples	1,568x
Core i7-6820HQIntelBench 60%, 33,920 samples	428x
Xeon E3-1505M v6IntelBench 70%, 4,124 samples	311x

GPU
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	1,223x
Quadro M1200NvidiaBench 15%, 4,250 samples	680x
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	331x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshiba $37Bench 145%, 33,719 samples	262x
PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 217%, 80,540 samples	127x
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 196%, 44,403 samples	103x

RAM
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GBHynixBench 73%, 6,356 samples	352x
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 1x16GBHynixBench 40%, 22,543 samples	260x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 71,691 samples	174x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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