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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.
Last real world benchmark of the day and, once again, the Phison E28 is right there in the top 2 of SSDs tsted to date with the SN8100.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
Although we never intended to have a head to head challenge between the current WD_Black SN8100 and the soon to be available Phison PS5028-E28 Gen5 SSD controller, it soon became apparent that the two were exchanging blows from benchmark to benchmark. Both SSDs jumped up as top SSD tested in a number of categories and both sat side by side in all but one test, this being our Final Fantasy XIV Game Load Time Benchmark. In this test, the SN8100 displayed a 5.2s game load time average with the Phison E28 coming with a 6.3s result. This is the test where tenths of a second mean the world in final placement.
Taking a look at synthetic benchmarks, the Phison E28 reached over 14GB/s throughput and over 2 million IOPS which we expected but it did something else we did not expect. I am pretty sure that the Phison PS5028-E28 Gen5 SSD controller is the first time an SSD has ever returned a low 4k random write result of over 500MB/s in our testing. The direct result of this is that it then provided the best real world data transfer testing that we had even seen from an SSD, specifically in its transfer of small 4K OS data.
Considering this evaluation is no more thgan a ‘preview’ of things to come, one cannot help but contemplate the final look and feel of the Phison E28. Editor’s Choice… You know we will be keeping this E28 in our system for a bit of long term testing.
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When drives with E28 will be available in shops and at what price ? Any rumors on it ?
As for testing with Z890, try to use motherboard with M2 connected directly to graphics PCIE. Mobos like ASUS ROG Strix Z890-E Gaming WIFI or GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS Master have such m2 slots. Additional card used as bridge, may add latencies lowering results. Tweak Town use such motherboard, with great results.
My guess is that E28 SSDs will start appearing within 2 months. The identified problem is global with all 200 series motherboards and Intel, ASUS, ASRock and other motherboard manufacturers have identified and spoken to this. Before our article we tested alongside Tweaktown to verify our discovery as Jon is a very close friend of mine. The most effective way to gain accurate readings is using an M.2 AIC adapter directly to the CPU PCIe lanes. We do this as does Tweaktown. It is easy to identify websites testing using the M.2 slots by their sub=par results with respect to the Intel chipset. They are much the same as the article. Thanks for commenting
Any idea on what the power consumption would be like on the E28? PCIe 5 SSDs have seen their power consumption go up compared to the previous generation and many PCIe 5 SSDs need a heatsink.
Also, any idea if this will out pressure on pricing? Right now PCIe 5 drives cost almost 2x per GB compared to the PCIe 4 SSDs.
Please read the article as there is a paragraph dedicated to those numbers.