Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	238% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 2011, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 93.4 1-Core 101 2-Core 195 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 806 72% 606 Pts	64-Core 1064 66% 1064 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan Z (SLI Disabled) 571 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1078) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6143 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 170 Reflection 73.9 Parallax 84.2 138% 109 fps	MRender 85.4 Gravity 56.9 Splatting 57.2 53% 66.5 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 75%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 336GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	238% Outstanding	Read 1,559 Write 1,323 Mixed 1,374 316% 1,419 MB/s	4K Read 52.1 4K Write 156 4K Mixed 62.5 242% 90.2 MB/s	DQ Read 532 DQ Write 397 DQ Mixed 228 234% 386 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 238% Great: 283%
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 512GB 527 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 283GB free Firmware: EXT07D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 850 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 20 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 1 8770 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9355219012 (F2) Unknown 99 99 10233741331	96.3% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 420 Mixed 392 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 95.6 4K Mixed 21.3 126% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 45.8 102% 215 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C15 4x4GB 77 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM 2400 MHz clocked @ 2448 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 46.1 MC Write 40.6 MC Mixed 36.6 117% 41.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 20.9 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 61.2 65% 61.2 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 127%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 82%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	40x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	34x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	33x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	30x
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2800 C16 8x8GBG.SKILLBench 120%, 113 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	21x

Value: 114% - Outstanding

Total price: $420

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