Asrock B450M Steel Legend

Performance Results


Gaming 25% Surfboard	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	16.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	248% 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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock B450M Steel Legend (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190509
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 01 '19 at 19:58
Run Duration	207 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G-$135 127,344 User benchmarks, average bench 63% AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 84.9 1-Core 114 2-Core 219 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 625 67% 532 Pts	64-Core 628 39% 628 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega 11 (Ryzen iGPU) 44,235 User benchmarks, average bench 15% AMD(1002 15DD) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 19.9.2 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	16.9% Very poor	Lighting 20.8 Reflection 18.2 Parallax 28.3 17% 22.4 fps	MRender 16.3 Gravity 23.1 Splatting 21.4 17% 20.3 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 16.9% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$46 87,206 User benchmarks, average bench 234% 164GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXM7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 741 429 424 432 432 422 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	248% Outstanding	Read 2,480 Write 2,185 Mixed 1,536 SusWrite 480 372% 1,670 MB/s	4K Read 62.2 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 80.3 265% 90.3 MB/s	DQ Read 948 DQ Write 715 DQ Mixed 907 658% 857 MB/s
Poor: 152% ↑ This bench: 248% Great: 302%
Crucial M550 256GB-$152 8,333 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 238GB free Firmware: MU02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 466 466 464 461 465 464 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Read 457 Write 466 Mixed 323 SusWrite 464 96% 427 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 91 4K Mixed 41.5 144% 53.7 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 357 DQ Mixed 237 206% 304 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 113%
Toshiba MK8032GSX 80GB-$35 363 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 58GB free Firmware: AS111G SusWrite @10s intervals: 27 30 30 30 30 30 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	16.3% Very poor	Read 26.8 Write 31.6 Mixed 22.3 SusWrite 29.7 20% 27.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.5 94% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 16.3% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	99.3% Outstanding	MC Read 35.6 MC Write 37.4 MC Mixed 32.9 101% 35.3 GB/s	SC Read 24.2 SC Write 44.2 SC Mixed 29.8 94% 32.7 GB/s	Latency 72 56% 72 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 110%

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

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: Asrock B450M Steel Legend - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,917x
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	823x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $151Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	605x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	488x
RTX 3060Nvidia $255Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	458x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	405x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	258x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	175x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	118x

RAM
DDR4 3200 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 87,891 samples	359x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GBUnknownBench 85%, 99,207 samples	317x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $56Bench 85%, 346,786 samples	291x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $525

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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