Apple iMac15,1

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	24.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	111% 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.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Apple iMac15,1 (all builds)
Motherboard	Apple Mac-42FD25EABCABB274
Memory	23.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20201202
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '21 at 20:26
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	42%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Memory 77.3 1-Core 108 2-Core 194 72% 127 Pts	4-Core 351 8-Core 469 52% 410 Pts	64-Core 544 34% 544 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 M290X 1,411 User benchmarks, average bench 22% Apple(106B 0138) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1060.0 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	24.1% Poor	Lighting 30.5 Reflection 35.5 Parallax 42.4 25% 36.1 fps	MRender 29.5 Gravity 30.9 Splatting 24.3 23% 28.2 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 24.1% Great: 27%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Apple SM1024F 1TB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: UXM6JA1Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 551 599 603 552 555 553 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Read 576 Write 556 Mixed 422 SusWrite 569 120% 531 MB/s	4K Read 21.3 4K Write 95 4K Mixed 29.2 120% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 449 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 266 226% 335 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 0x484D54343147533641465238412D50422020 4x8GB 23 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	50.4% Above average	MC Read 18.7 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 15.6 52% 18.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.7 SC Write 13.1 SC Mixed 13.8 36% 12.5 GB/s	Latency 85.6 47% 85.6 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 57%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical iMac15,1 Builds (Compare 34 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 86%

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Workstation 20%

Surfboard

System: Apple iMac15,1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	14x
Core i5-4690Intel $51Bench 67%, 73,695 samples	13x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	7x

GPU
R9 M290XAMDBench 22%, 1,411 samples	17x
RADEON R9 M295XAMDBench 30%, 158 samples	10x
R9 M290AMDBench 21%, 93 samples	7x

SSD
SM1024G PCIe 1TBAppleBench 169%, 404 samples	2x
Portable SSD T5 1TBSamsungBench 77%, 13,039 samples	2x
SM1024F 1TBAppleBench 82%, 15 samples	1x

RAM
0x384B54463531323634485A2D314736453220 2x4GBUnknownBench 56%, 154 samples	8x
0x31364B544631473634485A2D314736453220 2x8GBUnknownBench 56%, 50 samples	3x
0x484D54343147533641465238412D50422020 2x8GBUnknownBench 63%, 311 samples	2x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $348

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16