PCMark 8 - Storage Test:
PCMark 8 is a complete benchmark for Windows. It includes five benchmark tests, each designed around a specific scenario. The storage benchmark measures drive performance using real-world traces recorded from Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office and a selection of popular games.
PCMark 8 also includes a consistency test which measures the performance consistency and degradation tendency of a storage system. The test reports the performance level at the start, the degraded steady-state and the recovered state as well as the number of iterations required to reach the degraded state and the recovered state. For this test, we are focusing on the Adobe Photoshop (Heavy) trace and will look at both the bandwidth and latency of the drive
The P3 Plus didn't do as well as some of the other drives in this test. Its bandwidth dropped below 70 MB/s during the degradation and steady state phases, pushing its latency above the 500ms mark. The P3 Plus' performance increased somewhat during the recovery phase. However, it lagged well behind the drives from ADATA and Samsung, topping out at only 177 MB/s.
PCMark 10 - Full System Drive Benchmark:
PCMark 10's Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. This benchmark produces an overall score as a measure of drive performance. Comparing devices is as simple as comparing scores. The tests also measure and report the bandwidth and average access time performance for the drive.
The P3 Plus performed surprisingly well for a DRAM-less drive equipped with QLC NAND. As you can see, it wasn't nearly as fast as the P5 Plus. However, it scored better than other PCIe 4.0 SSDs like the Samsung 980 and Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus.
