There are many 3rd party performance benchmark tools for Windows 10. Out of convenience, PowerShell can gather this information rather quickly so that it would save a geek some time in downloading and learning other tools.
# Check if score has already been collected prior
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-CimInstance Win32_WinSat
CPUScore : 0
D3DScore : 0
DiskScore : 0
GraphicsScore : 0
MemoryScore : 0
TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment
WinSATAssessmentState : 3
WinSPRLevel : 0
PSComputerName :
# Trigger new performance scoring
PS C:\Windows\system32> winsat formal
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running the Formal Assessment
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Media Decode/Encode Assessment '-input C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsatencode.wmv -encode C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsat.prx'
> Run Time 00:00:02.75
> MOOBE Run Time 00:00:03.39
> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption -up'
> Run Time 00:00:03.09
> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression -up'
> Run Time 00:00:10.06
> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption2 -up'
> Run Time 00:00:10.08
> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression2 -up'
> Run Time 00:00:10.11
> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption'
> Run Time 00:00:03.16
> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression'
> Run Time 00:00:10.20
> Running: CPU Assessment '-encryption2'
> Run Time 00:00:03.20
> Running: CPU Assessment '-compression2'
> Run Time 00:00:10.27
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.22
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -read -n 0'
> Run Time 00:00:01.53
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 0'
> Run Time 00:00:00.16
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> CPU LZW Compression 393.82 MB/s
> CPU AES256 Encryption 1162.28 MB/s
> CPU Vista Compression 1004.35 MB/s
> CPU SHA1 Hash 1134.02 MB/s
> Uniproc CPU LZW Compression 99.84 MB/s
> Uniproc CPU AES256 Encryption 290.03 MB/s
> Uniproc CPU Vista Compression 251.14 MB/s
> Uniproc CPU SHA1 Hash 304.57 MB/s
> Memory Performance 17265.48 MB/s
> Video Memory Throughput 1257.62 MB/s
> Dshow Video Encode Time 1.85850 s
> Media Foundation Decode Time 0.99312 s
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 524.60 MB/s 8.1
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 444.31 MB/s 8.2
> Total Run Time 00:01:10.70
# View Scores after recent benchmarks
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-CimInstance Win32_WinSat
CPUScore : 7.6
D3DScore : 9.9
DiskScore : 8.15
GraphicsScore : 3
MemoryScore : 7.6
TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment
WinSATAssessmentState : 1
WinSPRLevel : 3
PSComputerName :
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