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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 PV593 placed in the top 50% of all SSDs tested in this software, with 5393 total points.
3D MARK MS DIRECT STORAGE FEATURE TEST
As our Patriot Viiper PV593 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 increasing game load times,reducing CPU overhead and providing more detailed graphics.
In our testing, data transfer achieved a 159% faster transfer of data than with MS DirectStorage disabled.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
It may have been a ferw years since we had a Patriot SSD in hand, but they haven’t missed a step. The Patriot Viper PV593 falls in line with the ‘consortium’ of Silicon Motion SM2508 based SSDs we have reviewed, in that, they are amongst the best SSDs available today. The PV593 most definitely fits right into Patriot’s ‘Viper Gaming’ enthusiast product line very well.
Listed specifications for this SSD speak to 14GB/s read and 13GB/s write with up to 2000K read and 1650K write IOPS and we have validated that through our test regimen. The PV593 comes with a standard 5-year warranty and its pricing is below that of what we see for similar ‘SM2508’ based competitors. The huge bonus that stands beside the performance of this SSD is that it has found that speed through an incredible power efficiency of only 7 watts, which also adds to a much cooler running SSD than we have seen prior.
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