Benchmarking your PC... let's see what you got!

Whilst it might just be the 'silicon lottery' causing your GTX 1070 to record a below-average benchmark, check out each of the following first:
1. Perhaps the GPU was set to 'power-saving' mode and not 'performance' (Check GPU software utility)
2. DDR4 RAM is currently not set to XMP and/or correct timings
3. Benchmark was run with the display output in the wrong settings for refresh rate frequency and screen resolution
4. Benchmark was run whilst other background applications and processes were being run concurrently
5. Thermal throttling of the GPU and/or CPU due to poor cooling sub-systems

What brand of 1070 do you have? Have you installed the manufacturer's GPU tuning software and experimented with overclocking settings?
Most 1070s have quite a lot of overclocking headroom for both the GPU clock speed and frequency of the 8Gb of GDDR5 memory.
 
Not using the latest Nvidia drivers but Microsoft's out of date ones could be an issue, I'd also run the test without those USB drives connected and after rebooting the system and not running anything else before running the benchmark, which often clears the under performance readings due to things going on in the background.
 
Thought I'd benchmark my PC and see what score I got. Not too shabby, but I need to get a better graphics card (or tweak the one that I have). I will be replacing the CPU when the 3rd Gen Ryzens come out. Trying to decide on whether to wait for the Navi-based AMD graphics cards, or save the money for a Radeon VII.

UserBenchmarks: Game 79%, Desk 100%, Work 101%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X - 87.6%
GPU: AMD RX 580 - 77.6%
SSD: Samsung MZVLB256HAHQ-000L7 256GB - 205%
SSD: Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB - 195.3%
SSD: Mushkin MKNSSDSR1TB-D8 1TB - 47.9%
RAM: Unknown CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK8GX4M1A2666C16 CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 24GB - 55.5%
MBD: MSI X370 GAMING M7 ACK (MS-7A35)


Removed one of the 8GB RAM sticks (had 24GB total, now back to 16GB). It's dropped a few scores slightly, but the RAM score pretty much doubled (especially with the RAM tweaking). Now to tweak the PC a bit more...
UserBenchmarks: Game 77%, Desk 100%, Work 99%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X - 85.6%
GPU: AMD RX 580 - 76.2%
SSD: Samsung MZVLB256HAHQ-000L7 256GB - 204.8%
SSD: Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB - 197.8%
SSD: Mushkin MKNSSDSR1TB-D8 1TB - 82.1%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB - 96.1%
MBD: MSI X370 GAMING M7 ACK (MS-7A35)

Overclocked my CPU to 3900MHz, and got this:
UserBenchmarks: Game 82%, Desk 113%, Work 110%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X - 97.8%
GPU: AMD RX 580 - 77.8%
SSD: Samsung MZVLB256HAHQ-000L7 256GB - 215.6%
SSD: Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB - 198.6%
SSD: Mushkin MKNSSDSR1TB-D8 1TB - 87.4%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB - 95.8%
MBD: MSI X370 GAMING M7 ACK (MS-7A35)
 
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The benchmarking software got lost with my dual quad core Xeons and reported that my computer was only good for email and light web browsing which I found really amusing.
 
The benchmarking software got lost with my dual quad core Xeons and reported that my computer was only good for email and light web browsing which I found really amusing.

If you're happy with your computer and it performs well for you then be happy!

The folk who have to continually benchmark their systems must be quite an insecure lot, always seeking reassurance that they think they have the best, and always chasing the impossible - a fruitless (and expensive!) exercise!

Rob.
 
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It was just amusing Rob because my computer is quite powerful for the old monster that it is, but the benchmark software wasn't able to cope with its architecture and the way it uses its 8 processor cores.
 
Out of curiosity what's your GPU?

None of these tests are what I'd call 100% accurate, depend on what tests they run and most results don't compare with each other.

What they can be useful for is indicating a problem if you suddenly start getting poorer results on the same hardware.
 
Out of curiosity what's your GPU?

None of these tests are what I'd call 100% accurate, depend on what tests they run and most results don't compare with each other.

What they can be useful for is indicating a problem if you suddenly start getting poorer results on the same hardware.

I have a laptop with an on board Intel video, and a add on (2nd video) GTX960M. When it turns on, a popup appears with a quick instruction to access the in-game menu. The test in the OP link does not produce the 'popup' and I know its running only on the Intel chip. The test link I show above produces my GPU popup menu, and all their graphic test screens ran on the GPU and were running at or over 100fps.

The original TANE was unable to turn on my GPU, but somewhere SP1 or SP2, or maybe an update driver for the GPU, and then TANE was then able to turn it on, and was a huge difference in performance for me.
 
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I have a laptop with an on board Intel video, and a add on (2nd video) GTX960M. When it turns on, a popup appears with a quick instruction to access the in-game menu. The test in the OP link does not produce the 'popup' and I know its running only on the Intel chip. The test link I show above produces my GPU popup menu, and all their graphic test screens ran on the GPU and were running at or over 100fps.

The original TANE was unable to turn on my GPU, but somewhere SP1 or SP2, or maybe an update driver for the GPU, and then TANE was then able to turn it on, and was a huge difference in performance for me.

I suspected it was something like that.
 
another one

This thread got me interested in seeing what mine came out to be....not too bad, I guess.

UserBenchmarks: Game 105%, Desk 80%, Work 91%

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 - 85.6%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 - 124.9%
SSD: Adata SU650 120GB - 75.1%
HDD: Toshiba P300 1TB - 95%
RAM: Unknown 2666 C16 Series 2x8GB - 78.9%
MBD: MSI A320M PRO-VH PLUS (MS-7B07)
 
That SSD and HDD would benefit from replacement with a single Samsung EVO series or better. If you could get 3200 speed RAM, along with the SSD swap, you would not have any problems running most titles at maximum.
 
Today

UserBenchmarks: Game 123%, Desk 92%, Work 114%
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K - 89.7%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti - 137.7%
SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB - 96.7%
SSD: OCZ Agility 4 256GB - 85.4%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB - 72.6%
HDD: WD VelociRaptor 1TB - 92.5%
HDD: Seagate IronWolf 1TB (2016) - 98.3%
HDD: WD WD8088AADS-00M2B0 809GB - 41.4%
USB: WD Multimedia 0622 3TB - 16.7%
USB: WD Elements 107C 3TB - 13.3%
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB - 75.1%
MBD: Asrock Z370 Gaming K6

What I was running in 2018

UserBenchmarks: Game 75%, Desk 82%, Work 63%
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 - 78.3%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 - 76.6%
SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB - 110.2%
SSD: OCZ Agility 4 256GB - 54.9%
HDD: WD Green 3TB (2011) - 67.6%
HDD: WD Green 1.5TB (2010) - 52.2%
HDD: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB - 56.5%
HDD: Seagate IronWolf 1TB (2016) - 83.4%
HDD: WD VelociRaptor 1TB - 107.7%
HDD: WD WD8088AADS-00M2B0 809GB - 51.5%
RAM: HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 4x8GB - 83.7%
MBD: Asrock Z170 OC Formula
 
Ok - Here's the first raw, unoptimised benchmark I got for the new Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 G533QR - HF009T RTX 3070 (Gaming Laptop)
Intended for use analysing bird calls and bat acoustic recording results, and AI number crunching, not gaming...

UserBenchmarks: Game 117%, Desk 99%, Work 126%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - 90.1%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070 (Laptop) - 128%
SSD: Intel 670p NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB - 322.7%
RAM: Samsung M471A2G43AB2-CWE 2x16GB - 83.5%
MBD: Asus ROG Strix G533QR_G533QR
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SystemAsus ROG Strix G533QR_G533QR (all builds)
MotherboardASUSTeK G533QR
Memory26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OSWindows 11
BIOS Date20211125
Uptime0 Days
Run DateDec 23 '21 at 02:37
Run Duration122 Seconds
Run User NZL-User
Background CPU1%
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Naturally, I just had to test it with TRS19-Platinum Edition (Beta Build 115943) to see how it performed with all the sliders maxed out to their highest graphics quality settings.
Peaches and Cream! (300 Hz refresh rate - Smooth as...)
 
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