MSI B450 Tomahawk

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 68%
Battle cruiser
Desktop
Desktop 71%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 59%
Gunboat
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics101% 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 DriveThe boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
SystemMicro-Star MS-7C02
MotherboardMSI B450 Tomahawk  (all builds)
Memory18.2 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20180702
Uptime0 Days
Run DateDec 05 '18 at 00:05
Run Duration118 Seconds
Run User USA-User
Background CPU4%
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 PC Performing as expected (45th percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X-$131
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg)
Performing above expectations (84th percentile)
70.2% Very good
Memory 69.6
1-Core 102
2-Core 210
70% 127 Pts
4-Core 380
8-Core 603
60% 492 Pts
64-Core 604
37% 604 Pts
Poor: 56%
This bench: 70.2%
Great: 73%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400
CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 417.22
Performing below potential (42nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide
101% Outstanding
Lighting 129
Reflection 143
Parallax 121
105% 131 fps
MRender 112
Gravity 126
Splatting 106
93% 114 fps
Poor: 93%
This bench: 101%
Great: 110%
Drive BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$75
396GB free (System drive)
Firmware: SDM1
SusWrite @10s intervals: 15 39 50 53 48 48 MB/s
Performing way below expectations (8th percentile)
26.3% Poor
Read 50
Write 52.8
Mixed 16.7
SusWrite 41.9
29% 40.3 MB/s
4K Read 0
4K Write 0
4K Mixed 0
0% 0 MB/s
Poor: 23%
This bench: 26.3%
Great: 68%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 F4-3000C16-8GTZR F4-3000C16-8GTZR 24GB
2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz
4096, 4096, 8192, 8192 MB
Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
50% Average
MC Read 18.3
MC Write 16
MC Mixed 17.3
49% 17.2 GB/s
SC Read 15.1
SC Write 17.7
SC Mixed 19.2
50% 17.3 GB/s
Latency 102
39% 102 ns
Poor: 50%
This bench: 50%
Great: 55%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical B450 TOMAHAWK (MS-7C02) Builds (Compare 7,284 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 70%
Battle cruiser
Desktop
Desktop 80%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 64%
Destroyer

Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk - $130

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 73% - Very good Total price: $703
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