Alienware Area-51 R5

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	70.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	116% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Alienware Area-51 R5 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0N4R4N
Memory	25.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190527
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 10 '20 at 21:05
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7980XE-$1,200 4,653 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 18 cores, 36 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 2.75 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	Memory 69 1-Core 120 2-Core 244 78% 145 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 894 77% 660 Pts	64-Core 2,488 154% 2,488 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 95%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 184 User benchmarks, average bench 89% Dell(1028 1726) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.4.1 Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	70.8% Very good	Lighting 71.2 Reflection 87 Parallax 162 58% 107 fps	MRender 89.7 Gravity 125 Splatting 128 95% 114 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 98%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB 9,737 User benchmarks, average bench 171% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: AADA4106 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 45 65 85 102 112 131 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Read 1,453 Write 60.2 Mixed 110 SusWrite 90 90% 428 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 56.1 4K Mixed 34.3 111% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 758 DQ Write 54.9 DQ Mixed 105 153% 306 MB/s
Poor: 99% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 251%
WD Blue 6TB (2015)-$215 8,416 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 5.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 36 33 31 30 30 32 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 50% Great: 97%
WD Blue 6TB (2015)-$215 8,416 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 8 9.2 14 15 16 13 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 50% Great: 97%
WD My Passport 25E2 4TB 31,793 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 3.5TB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 106 109 105 108 105 107 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	43.5% Average	Read 114 Write 105 Mixed 70.5 SusWrite 107 132% 99 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.2 49% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston XRMWRN-HYA 2x16GB 142 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	58% Above average	MC Read 18.7 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 18.7 62% 21.7 GB/s	SC Read 7.7 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 10.4 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 104 39% 104 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 100%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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System: Alienware Area-51 R5

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	51x
Core i9-7900XIntel $393Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	34x
Core i7-9800XIntel $545Bench 83%, 4,003 samples	31x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	63x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	42x
RTX 2080Nvidia $407Bench 124%, 316,424 samples	32x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	21x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBToshiba $46Bench 145%, 33,719 samples	14x
NVMe SK hynix 256GBPc401Bench 118%, 9,137 samples	11x

RAM
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 4x8GBSamsungBench 88%, 1,851 samples	12x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	10x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 78%, 6,317 samples	8x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $734

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16