See Your PC’s Performance Scores with a Simple Command

[koolkat]

Windows Experience Index (WEI) rates your PC on the basis of five components: processor, graphics, hard disk, gaming graphics, and memory.

The tool appeared in Vista but the graphic interface was removed in Windows 8.1. However, you can still access it by a special command as system administrator.

With this command, you get the current performance capability of your PC hardware and software configuration. (The number is called the base score, and its values range from 1.0 to 9.9. A 4.0-5.0 is good, meaning your PC can handle high-end work and multi-tasking easily. With a 6.0 or higher score, your computer can handle anything you want.) Values near 9 are excellent.

WEI includes a subscore of five key areas of a PC's hardware: desktop graphics, 3D gaming graphics*, system memory (RAM) throughput, sequential read throughput of the primary hard disk, and processor (CPU) processing speed and ability. The base score is equal to the lowest of the subscores and is not an average of the subscores. The subscores can help show you what area is performing the lowest on your system, if you are looking to upgrade your hardware.

*Note that the 3D graphics index score is no longer valid in Windows 10. It sets a 9.9 score by default now.

 

Command:

Open Windows PowerShell (Admin). Copy-paste:

get-wmiobject -class win32_winsat

and press Enter.

Results appear immediately. 

In my case, performance is let down by GraphicsScore  5.8. Remaining scores are over 8.