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3D MARK 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 BIWIN X570 Black Opal Gen5 DRAMless SSD surpassed a few Gen5 SSDs in this 3DMark Storage Benchmark.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
The BIWIN X570 Gen5 DRAMless SSD is, without question, the highest performing SSD of its kind on the planet. As much as we respect the choice of BIWIN to use Micron 3D TLC 232-layer B58r Fortis NAND flash memory, the component responsible for this SSD’s success is, without question, the Maxiotek MAP1806a 8-channel Gen5 DRAMless NVMe SSD controller with its very first public showing.
The BIWIN X570 Back Opal achieved performance highs of over 14GB/s sequential data transfer and 2 million IOPS which has never been done by a DRAMless SSD prior. Is all of this candies and flowers? Not completely. I personally wasn’t impressed with the Crystal DiskMark low 4K random read speed of 81MB/s and, in fact, I tested over and over again but that speed remained. On the other hand, the low 4k random write speed of 424MB/s is phenomenal, and probably the reason this SSD kept up with DRAM-based Gen5 SSDs throughout its testing.
The X570 comes with a 5-year warranty and there is a ‘BIWIN Intelligence SSD Tool’ download, however, this SSD is so new that it has not been updated as of yet and is not recognized. Likewise, unfortunately we cannot provide any thought with respect to pricing or availability…but this is the first off the line so stay tuned. We will update this report on availability. Without question, this SSD is deserving of our Editor’s Choice as it is a high performing SSD that will come with a lower price point as it is DRAMless, comes in several capacities and has a 5-year limited warranty.
CHECK FOR BIWIN X570 AVAILABILITY AT AMAZON
I seem to remember that DRAMLESS SSDs gets significantly slower once filled over 50%. Did you notice anything like that?
This theory is not restricted to DRAMless SSDs and not current. Explaining in the most basic of terms, it relates to how information is saved and deleted from pages and blocks as the SSD fills past, for the most part, the 80% mark. Overprovisioning and Garbage Collection which is present in all SSDs counters this. We discuss that in detail in our Beginners article, Trim and Garbage Collection. I would invite you to return with a link if you have found something other than this. We have not, and don’t find it necessary to fill a drive in order to dedtermine if it slows which, actually also brings up another thought which is present in all SSDs, steady state transfer. All SSDs will slow to a certain speed for large transfers; this is inevidable. It is not the result of the drive being half full, and is not restricted to DRAMless SSDs.
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