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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 Phison E26 Max14um pulled well ahead of the competition in our 3DMark Storage Benchmark, as it should.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
I really don’t understand the full reason just yet but I think of an orange juicer when I consider what Phison has done with this SSD. They have squeezed every last drop of performance from their PS5026-E26 Max14um PCIe 5.0 reference design SSD and they may have just carved out their own place with respect to performance. Can another manufacture duplicate this performance? We really don’t think so.
Every component of this SSD had to be tuned to its absolute best and then made to fit perfectly in order to get this SSD to reach highs of 14.1GB/s data throughput and 1.7 million IOPS. And this is only the reference design. It is not the final product, as much as we don’t think these numbers will deviate by any large margin anytime soon.
We had to dig deep in the archives to find this shot of an early FMS Phison Booth Demo. It’s rather telling of their success as they have become such a giant in today’s flash industry. Hazard to guess the year? Congrats Phison and great work on the E26 Max14um!
I’m curious about how the active cooling might work. In the sample it looks like there’s a standard 4 pin connector similar to what would be used with a cpu or case fan. So that would mean that your motherboard would have to have an unused 4 pin socket available which the user would most likely set to run at 100% all of the time. Or maybe the eventual products would have a sata power to cooler adapter. It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
Yes it is a simple 4-pin as one plugs into the motherboard and it does run at 100% all the time. It is actually very common and became such with SSDs around Gen 4. Great seeing you jump in Dave!
Nice to see that you’re back Les! Keep it up!
Thank you Gunnar!