MSI B450 Tomahawk

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	200% 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.

System	Micro-Star MS-7C02
Motherboard	MSI B450 Tomahawk (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190924
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Feb 17 '20 at 11:03
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X-$120 142,983 User benchmarks, average bench 74% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 86.4 1-Core 130 2-Core 257 87% 158 Pts	4-Core 505 8-Core 840 82% 673 Pts	64-Core 1,016 63% 1,016 Pts
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1445) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 442.19 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 114 Parallax 107 86% 109 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 97.9 Splatting 101 82% 99.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX6000 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 12,504 User benchmarks, average bench 177% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: V9001b19 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1100 945 176 352 211 215 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	200% Outstanding	Read 1,964 Write 1,071 Mixed 888 SusWrite 500 244% 1,106 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 142 4K Mixed 56 212% 80.4 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 815 DQ Mixed 457 382% 536 MB/s
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 200% Great: 244%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 292GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 480 487 487 492 493 493 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	119% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 157 Mixed 227 SusWrite 489 77% 345 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 96.2 4K Mixed 52 181% 63.4 MB/s	DQ Read 386 DQ Write 162 DQ Mixed 185 160% 244 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 554GB free Firmware: CC49 SusWrite @10s intervals: 188 191 192 191 193 193 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 147 Mixed 76 SusWrite 191 110% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 1 178% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D30BESB.16FD 1x16GB 1,058 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2800 MHz clocked @ 1400 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	47.9% Average	MC Read 18 MC Write 16.1 MC Mixed 14.9 47% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 14.1 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 71 56% 71 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 60%

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

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 64%

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Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk - $130

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,749x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $82Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,087x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	856x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	560x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	474x
RTX 2070Nvidia $200Bench 104%, 478,117 samples	338x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	434x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	301x
660p NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBIntel $74Bench 191%, 163,917 samples	233x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	658x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	426x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	246x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $703

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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