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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 Platinum P51 placed fourth of all SSDs tested to date on 3DMark Storage Benchmark.
3D MARK MS DIRECT STORAGE FEATURE TEST
As our Transcend MTE260S Gen5 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 increasing game load times,reducing CPU overhead and providing more detailed graphics.
In our testing, data transfer achieved a 156% faster transfer of data than with MS DirectStorage disabled.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
The SK hynix Platiinum P51 Gen5 SSD placed extremely well in our testing but we have to wonder how many people siimply glanced at its synthetic test results such as Crystal Diskmark and felt otherwise. This SSD did something we had never seen before, in that, none of its synthetic tests (Crystal DiskMark/AS SSD/ATTO/AJA/Anvil/TxBench) were able to meet manufacturers listed specifications, yet all of our real world tests (3DMark/PCMark10/True Data/PassMark/Game Loading) were Top 10 results. Let’s be very clear in the fact that it is an extremely rare feat for any SSD to make Top 10 in every one of those real world scenarios…but the Platinum P51 did just that.
The Platinum P51 achieved throughput highs of 13GB/s read and 11GB/s write, all the while reaching 2000K IOPS and 1900K IOPS low 4K random read and write performance. The P51 comes with a standard 5-year limited warranty with a typical rating of 600TBW per terabyte of capacity. Its price point is excellent and it has mass availability presently. Gold Seal!
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