Samsung 990 EVO Gen 5 2TB SSD Review

PCMARK 10 FULL SYSTEM STORAGE BENCHMARK

PCMark 10 Storage Benchmarks produce an overall score as a measure of drive performance. Comparing devices is as simple as comparing scores. The tests also measure and report the bandwidth and average access time performance for the drive. Each test uses traces recorded while performing real-world tasks such as booting Windows 10, starting applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, working with applications such as Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, and copying several large files and many small files.

 

The Samsung 990 EVO actually does fairly well in this PCMark result considering it is a DRAM-less SSD.

PCMARK 10 QUICK SYSTEM STORAGE BENCHMARK

The Quick System Drive Benchmark is a subset of the Full test and is more representative of typical daily usage to show what would be expected regarding hybrid SSD performance on a day-to-day basis.

WE truly never expected the 990 Pro to jump to the Top 10 in any of our testing which is why this Test result is such a surprise.

TRUE DATA TESTING

For our True Data Testing, we simply loaded 15GB video, music, photo and OS files onto the Samsung 990 EVO Gen5 2TB SSD and copied the data to a new folder on that same disk.

 

We don’t really have much to speak of with respect to the 990 EVO in True Data Testing, but to remind all this is a DRAM-less SSD and the comparison we are showing here is that of the 990 EVO beside other DRAM-less SSDs.  Suffice this to say these results are significantly lower than what we might see in high-end SSDs today.

PASSMARK PERFORMANCE TEST

We thought we might add a few extras in our report today, PassMark Performance Test DiskMark component being a nice addition. This software tests sequential reads and writes, along with IOPS and compares the result with millions of other SSDs worldwide. We might suggest being in the 99th percentile of all SSDs tested was a nice result.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: ENDWALKER BENCHMARK

The Final Fantasy Benchmark is a new tool in our arsenal and geared specifically to the gamer. The software is installed directly on the SSD and the SSD tested, providing and end result of FPS and scene transition times.

You may have noticed that we have sort of ‘stretched’ our Top 10 results once or twice.  We did this as we thought it was deserving to show just how close the 990 EVO came to that of the best SSDs tested to date.