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3DMARK STORAGE GAMING BENCHMARK
UL Solutions has created a new storage gaming benchmark that we will start to use as new SSDs come in. The 3DMark Storage Benchmark DLC extends 3DMark Advanced Edition with a dedicated component test for measuring the gaming performance of SSDs and other storage hardware. It supports all the latest storage technologies and tests practical, real-world gaming performance for activities such as loading games, saving progress, installing game files, and recording gameplay video streams.
The Samsung 9100 Pro placed fourth of all 3DMark Storage Benchmark tests to date which is excellent considering this benchmark is the truest real world type test available.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
The Samsung 9100 Pro Gen5 SSD was lucky enough, or unlucky enough as it may be, to come across our desk at just the time that we were building two new Z890 Test benches and it immediately became our target SSD for these systems. We have put over 48TBW of testing through this and we can test it again right now and still receive that same excellent performance that we published here. It comes in at over 14GB/s throughput with over 2 million IOPs and stands to date as the best SSD we have put through our test regimen.
Having said that, it didn’t walk away with all of our real world testing, however it did place in the Top 10 for all tests and was the clear winner in our synthetic tests. As much as it has become common for SSDs to have 5-year limited warranties, we have to give credit where credits due as we live in a world of 1-year warranties for most everything we buy these days. Last but not least the pricing is way up there… It is the norm with new Gen SSDs but will settle in as it always does. Gen5 SSDs and that 14GB/s speed with 12 million IOPS are meant to attract those that need that performance. MSRP is simply that… MSRP. Availability will be there and Samsung drives have one heck of a following.
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