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 US75 didn't do as well as some of the other drives in this test. During the degradation and steady phases, its bandwidth dropped below 300 MB/s. The US75's performance did increase somewhat during the last recovery phase. However, with it topping out at only 394 MB/s, it lagged well behind the Samsung 990 PRO and Crucial P5 Plus.
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 US75 performed relatively well for a DRAM-less drive. As you can see, it wasn't nearly as fast as the Crucial T500 or Samsung 990 PRO However, it scored better than other PCIe 4.0 SSDs like the Crucial P5 Plus and ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70.
