Alienware Aurora R7

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (18th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 82 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% 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	The 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.
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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

22 months ago, 22 months ago, 22 months ago.

System	Alienware Aurora R7 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0VDT73
Memory	8.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20210906
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 20 '22 at 02:03
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Memory 75.6 1-Core 106 2-Core 205 72% 129 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 614 63% 510 Pts	64-Core 814 50% 814 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 512.95 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 135 Parallax 125 104% 129 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 131 Splatting 113 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SA2000M81000G 1TB 77,062 User benchmarks, average bench 234% 157GB free Firmware: S5Z42105 SusWrite @10s intervals: 970 484 549 488 383 167 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	220% Outstanding	Read 1,639 Write 886 Mixed 1,252 SusWrite 507 238% 1,071 MB/s	4K Read 60.6 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 81 272% 95.6 MB/s	DQ Read 985 DQ Write 764 DQ Mixed 437 446% 728 MB/s
Poor: 140% ↑ This bench: 220% Great: 311%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: MS2OA810 SusWrite @10s intervals: 99 103 69 56 46 30 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	26.3% Poor	Read 24.9 Write 9.7 Mixed 12.5 SusWrite 67.1 21% 28.5 MB/s	4K Read 0 4K Write 0.2 4K Mixed 0.1 15% 0.1 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 26.3% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown M378A1K43CB2-CTD 2x8GB 4,758 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	67% Good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 25.9 MC Mixed 21.2 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 17.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 89.1 45% 89.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 87%

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

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System: Alienware Aurora R7

CPU
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	2,854x
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,388x
Core i5-8400Intel $131Bench 82%, 312,220 samples	771x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,297x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,039x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	663x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	844x
SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 238%, 21,542 samples	163x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	153x

RAM
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6H1 2x8GBUnknownBench 78%, 8,965 samples	552x
8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 9,471 samples	548x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 6,858 samples	491x

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Total price: $633

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $178	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