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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.
Once again, this is not a ‘Top 10’ score and the KIOXIA Exceria G3 is placed amongst its peers with respect to benchmark results.
3D MARK MS DIRECT STORAGE FEATURE TEST
As our KIOXIA Exceria G3 Gen5 4TB SSD is MS DirectStorage compatible, we thought we might take advantage of the 3DMark DirectStorage Feature Test and see how this SSD fared. MS DirectStorage, in very basic terms, allows direct transfer of data from your SSD storage directly to your GPU, eliminating its historical necessary passage from the SSD through the CPU to RAM, back through the CPU and finally to the GPU VRAM. This is, for the most part at this time, intended on faster game load times,reducing CPU overhead and providing more detailed graphics.
In our testing, data transfer achieved a 141.8% faster transfer of data than with MS DirectStorage disabled.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
The KIOXIA Exceria G3 Gen5 4TB SSD does not enter the retail SSD fold as the most powerful performing SSD to date, but it does provide some very interesting characteristics that those ‘top performing’ SSDs might not. It is a 2TB single-sided SSD with an active power draw of 6.4w. We found this to be a very cool running SSD which would be an ideal 4TB SSD in a Gen5 laptop or ultrabook.
Performance of 10.2GB/s read and 9.8GB/s write was complimented by 1700K IOPS which is great to see in a Gen5 SSD. Add to that the fact that the Exceria G3 comes with a solid 5-year limited waranty (when purchased through appropriate channels) and a reasonable pricing model and things look very encouraging for this SSD. Silver Seal!
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