HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	108% 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	70% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	20.3 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140325
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 19 '17 at 16:36
Run Duration	84 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2-$345 10,301 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 90.9 1-Core 105 2-Core 204 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 335 8-Core 514 52% 425 Pts	64-Core 519 32% 519 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% PNY(196E 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 155 Parallax 132 117% 144 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 134 Splatting 111 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow KC400 512GB-$180 2,804 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 254GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM001B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 381 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 413 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C2) HDA temperature 70 63 158915362846 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 408 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 381 (F2) Unknown 100 100 723 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1 (F6) Unknown 100 100 105664	70% Good	Read 526 Write 417 Mixed 410 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 62.5 4K Mixed 6.28 76% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 23.8 DQ Write 79.3 DQ Mixed 7.91 19% 37 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT451U7AFR8C-RD 6x4GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 6 of 8 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	95.7% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 36.5 107% 37.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 13.3 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 96%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,526x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	791x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	699x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	500x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	309x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	263x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	185x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	129x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	113x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	58x
HMT41GU7AFR8C-RD 4x8GBHynixBench 89%, 207 samples	56x

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