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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 Micron 3610 DRAMless SSD did fairly well with 5019 total points. This is not a ‘best of’ chart, but rather a chart which places the Micron 3610 Gen5 SSD amongst its peers.
3D MARK MS DIRECT STORAGE FEATURE TEST
As our Micron 3610 2TB 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 142.9% faster transfer of data than with MS DirectStorage disabled.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
Our testing oif the Micron 3610 Gen5 QLC DRAMless 2TB SSD provided totally unexpected results, even after we had a full one on one briefing with Micron at CES most recently. This SSD is perhaps the perfect ultrabook solution and hits the nail on the head in so many aspects, the most important being size, capacity and its very cool nature, being a compact 22mm x 30mm solution with only two chips. We will be seeing oem ultras available before long with the Micron 3610 4TB Gen 5 SSD inside before long, even if you have no knowledge of the SSD inside. As a matter of fact, it would be great to get one of those on our Test Bench!
Performance of the Micron 3610 is incredible as it reached data throughput highs of 11GB/s read and 9.3GB/s write in our testing along with over 1500K read and write IOPS. The only similar comparison to this SSD is our recent report on the Corsair MP700 Micro which uses the same controller paired with KIOXIA BiCS8 TLC NAND and that MP700 cannot keep up to the Micron 3610. It is not often that we ever see QLC outperforming TLC NAND but one needs to only take a look at some of the performance comparisons in this report. The only thing we might like to see, well two things actually, is that 3-year warranty bumped to a 5-year warranty (as that is the industry standard) and a consumer available version. Editor’s Choice!
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