Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	125% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-8100-$110 81,392 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 120 2-Core 239 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 470 62% 466 Pts	64-Core 450 28% 450 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.36 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 156 Parallax 133 112% 142 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 135 Splatting 113 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
CT500MX500SSD4 500GB 44,418 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 379GB free (System drive) Firmware: M3CR020 SusWrite @10s intervals: 378 446 457 470 403 356 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	125% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 473 Mixed 446 SusWrite 418 104% 461 MB/s	4K Read 45.9 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 57 203% 72.1 MB/s	DQ Read 388 DQ Write 348 DQ Mixed 295 241% 344 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 123%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 4TB 10,285 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 106 108 112 108 112 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	64.5% Good	Read 114 Write 113 Mixed 101 SusWrite 110 81% 110 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1 203% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 13,205 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3007 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	96.4% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 37 MC Mixed 29.4 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 35.2 SC Mixed 28.4 80% 27.9 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 103%

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

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 55%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	300x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	295x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	270x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	454x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	283x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	271x

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $520

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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