Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 72%, 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	65.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit väriä
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	2.5 Days
Run Date	Sep 11 '18 at 19:19
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$45 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	72% Very good	Memory 83.1 1-Core 99.5 2-Core 187 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 328 8-Core 541 53% 435 Pts	64-Core 550 34% 550 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 8623) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2102 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 399.7 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 146 Parallax 137 107% 138 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 128 Splatting 107 92% 112 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 166GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71B1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 57 31 135 6.5 73 51 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	65.9% Good	Read 414 Write 197 Mixed 288 SusWrite 58.8 53% 239 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 87.4 4K Mixed 26.7 113% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 161 150% 229 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 100%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 297GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 145 144 147 147 146 148 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	Read 123 Write 116 Mixed 84.8 SusWrite 146 86% 117 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.1 212% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5584-005.A00LF Hynix HMT451U6AFR8C-PB 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBRL 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBRL 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	55.4% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 16.5 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 16.8 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 75 53% 75 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 55%

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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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Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

CPU
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	622x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	541x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	359x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	307x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	227x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	118x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	92x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	148x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	65x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	62x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $353

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 $177	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) $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