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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 9100 Pro did not place in the Top 10 of all SSDs tested in this software, however placed very respectably with 5702 total points.
3D MARK MS DIRECT STORAGE FEATURE TEST
As our Samsung 9100 Pro Gen5 8TB 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 157% faster transfer of data than with MS DirectStorage disabled.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
The Samsung 9100 Pro performs much as we expected with throughput in excess of 14GB/s and over 2 million IOPS. This SSD pretty much ran arm in arm with our earlier 4TB review of same. The 9100 Pro is manufactured for those media professionals and PC enthusiasts that need the storage space that 8TB can accomodate. It’s rather amusing as it wasn’t so long ago (ok maybe it was) that I sat with Samsung in a product briefing trying to ascertain why they wouldn’t market a 1TB SSD when so many others had.
The Samsung 9100 Pro comes with a five-year limited warranty and MSRP for this SSD is $999.99, although we might bet it will be a bit lower on release. We haven’t seen release just yet but we are seeing pre-order opportunities. We believe it deserving to award the Samsung 9100 Pro our Gold Seal at this point and time. It has performance, great capacity points and a great 5-year warranty.
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