Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 70.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	10.8% 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	202% 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 (80^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 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Memory 82.4 1-Core 72.5 2-Core 204 67% 120 Pts	4-Core 322 8-Core 474 50% 398 Pts	64-Core 504 31% 504 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 70.9% 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. 15.200.1060.0 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	10.8% Very poor	Lighting 13 Reflection 13.3 Parallax 18 11% 14.8 fps	MRender 11.6 Gravity 12.4 Splatting 15.5 11% 13.2 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 10.8% Great: 12%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Apple SM0512G PCIe 500GB 1,474 User benchmarks, average bench 162% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW1SA0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1441 1376 1320 1168 1176 1191 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	202% Outstanding	Read 1,388 Write 1,396 Mixed 871 SusWrite 1,279 278% 1,233 MB/s	4K Read 24.3 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 34.4 152% 64.2 MB/s	DQ Read 629 DQ Write 385 DQ Mixed 553 400% 522 MB/s
Poor: 107% ↑ This bench: 202% Great: 223%

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 above expectations (75^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	MC Read 37.8 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 20 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 19.1 SC Mixed 18.3 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 76.3 52% 76.3 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 70.9% 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