Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


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 71%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.91% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	122% 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.

Very high background CPU (51%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

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 i7-4870HQ 3,774 User benchmarks, average bench 66% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.5 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 77.7 1-Core 104 2-Core 205 73% 129 Pts	4-Core 352 8-Core 471 52% 412 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 M370X 1,180 User benchmarks, average bench 10% Apple(106B 0149) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2001.0 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	3.91% Terrible	Lighting 4.87 Reflection 4.65 Parallax 6.62 4% 5.38 fps	MRender 3.76 Gravity 4.97 Splatting 4.96 4% 4.56 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 3.91% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Microsoft Virtual Disk 4GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2GB free Firmware: 1.0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
Poor: 55% Great: 82%
Apple SM0512G PCIe 500GB 1,474 User benchmarks, average bench 162% 2GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW1SA0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3081 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5686 (A9) Unknown 217 217 4363862935424 (AD) Unknown 195 195 12895584297 (AE) Unknown 99 99 12995994 (AF) Unknown 99 99 10404363 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 39 (C2) HDA temperature 55 17 360778104877 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	122% Outstanding	Read 1,689 Write 623 Mixed 1,022 244% 1,111 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 30.4 4K Mixed 10.1 54% 19 MB/s	DQ Read 15.6 DQ Write 27.3 DQ Mixed 115 61% 52.8 MB/s
Poor: 107% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 223%
Microsoft Virtual Disk 2GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 0GB free Firmware: 1.0 Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 48% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 0x31364B544631473634485A2D314736453120 2x8GB 1,320 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	68.9% Good	MC Read 35.6 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 20.1 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 18.9 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 84.8 47% 84.8 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 75%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 14%

Tree trunk

Desktop 70%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 13%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core i7-4870HQIntelBench 66%, 3,774 samples	57x
Core i7-4980HQIntelBench 69%, 2,147 samples	18x

GPU
R9 M370XAMDBench 10%, 1,180 samples	74x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	1x

SSD
SM0512G PCIe 500GBAppleBench 162%, 1,474 samples	47x
SM1024G PCIe 1TBAppleBench 169%, 404 samples	9x
SD0256F 251GBAppleBench 77%, 296 samples	2x

RAM
0x31364B544631473634485A2D314736453120 2x8GBUnknownBench 67%, 1,320 samples	48x
0x484D54343147533642465238412D50422020 2x8GBUnknownBench 67%, 1,183 samples	27x

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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