So 3DMark added a Storage Benchmark (paid DLC)

[MadMatty]

3DMark adds new SSD benchmark for gamers (ul.com)

3DMark added a Storage benchmark so I have submitted results of my ssd drives. The final result don't mean a whole lot apart from bigger is better. Id like to see a breakdown of the 7 individual tests in a future update making result comparisons more interesting between drives.

The overall test is long and can take 30 mins to complete them all as about 30gb of data is processed.

Test Conditions: AV Disabled, No Caching software, No Rapid Storage, Default windows NVME Driver.

Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB (X570 Gen4)

Storage Score 3320 - http://www.3dmark.com/strg/3995

Storage Bandwidth Overall - 567.70 MB/s
Storage Average Access Time Overall - 54 µs

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Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB (X570 Gen3)

Storage Score 2388 - http://www.3dmark.com/strg/4015

Storage Bandwidth Overall - 413.33 MB/s
Storage Average Access Time Overall - 76 µs

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T-Force Cardea Zero Z440 (X470 Gen3)

Storage Score 2963 - http://www.3dmark.com/strg9373

Storage Bandwidth Overall - 519.41 MB/s
Storage Average Access Time Overall - 62 µs
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WD Black SN850 1TB (X570 Gen4) (GAMEMODE ON)

Storage Score 3886- http://www.3dmark.com/strg/10786

Storage Bandwidth Overall - 662.68 MB/s
Storage Average Access Time Overall - 46 µs
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Sata SSD Drives:

Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB

Storage Score 1105 - http://www.3dmark.com/strg/10129

Storage Bandwidth Overall - 198.08 MB/s
Storage Average Access Time Overall - 170 µs

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Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB

Storage Score 1262 - http://www.3dmark.com/strg/4077

Storage Bandwidth Overall - 223.38 MB/s
Storage Average Access Time Overall - 147 µs

 

[chris182008]

Glad to see they have released this, I'd like to see a breakdown on the results page as well but for the time being you can unzip the saved results and look at the CSVs for all the test numbers.

Intel Optane 900P 280GB

Storage Score 3768 - https://www.3dmark.com/strg/4876

Storage Bandwidth Overall - 636.43 MB/s
Storage Average Access Time Overall - 47 µs

 

[AStaley]

Running on Win10 with Kaspersky/Malwarebytes still enabled.

Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB (X570 Gen4)

Storage Score 2767 - https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/68301229?

Storage Bandwidth Overall - 467.34 MB/s

Storage Average Access Time Overall - 64 µs

 

[MadMatty]

The Samsung 980Pro has received a firmware update thought to improve PS5 compatibility. Since I need to hook the drive to a PC to update it, I updated my Benchmark scores for it.

Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (X570 Gen 4- Full Power Mode)

Previous Firmware 3B2QGXA7
Score = 3314 http://www.3dmark.com/strg/15367

New Firmware 4B2QGXA7
Score = 3258 http://www.3dmark.com/strg/15380

Compare Link https://www.3dmark.com/compare/strg/15375/strg/15371/strg/15380/strg/15367

New firmware seems to have reduced performance slightly in both Standard and Full Power modes. This is also reflected in Samsung Magician with a 100 mb/s lower Read Speed. Write speeds are about the same across both firmware versions.

As for the PS5, Old Score = 5560 MB/s , New Score = 6495 MB/s