Straight away, this drive is flying, with PCIe 4 limits being around 7000 MB/s and this drive smashes through that to 7133.25, so definitely maxing out the interface here, and even the write speeds are very high, at 6791.55.
Again, the IOPS are very high, easily maxing out the PCIe 4.0 hardware, and no signs of throttling here.
This is a great score for a PCIe 4 drive, hitting over 23000 points in the Anvil benchmark, and excellent read and write speeds, with similarly high IOPs here too.
With ATTO, we see the drive getting up to its maximum speed very quickly, hitting 6.33 GB/s from around 512KB write transfers, and the read peaking from around 2 MB/s.
AS SSD is showing fast loading times for both programs and gaming, all under four seconds.
A strong score of near 10,000 here, with extremely fast read and write access times of 0.010 and 0.014ms.
And very consistent, the exact same score while testing the IOPs.
AJA is great for testing the drive for high-end camera devices and with the 10bit YUV 1GB test file, it scored around 6000 MB/s, so definitely no issues here.
For PCMark, we can see fast loading times for all games, and excellent disk access times, which can help reduce unwanted stutters when loading new scenes, saving games, etc.
Running our compression test, the write speeds are extremely consistent, and while there is some drop in the read speeds at around 80% it’s quite small, and on par with what we expect to see in this test.
Final Fantasy XIV can have quite long load times, but with this drive, each scene loaded in around two seconds and the total load time was just over 11 seconds, coring an “extremely high” rating overall.
The included heatsink is clearly working very well, with the drive never exceeding 52c throughout all of our testing, and given we run quite a few demanding benchmarks, this is very impressive.
