Performance
Performance has been tested on the Ryzen Threadripper platform which contains the 1920X, 12 core processor and ASRock X399M Taichi motherboard. Used operating system was Windows 10 Pro x64. I guess that performance on Intel controllers would be a bit higher but AMD Ryzen is really popular in last months so let’s take a look at the results on AMD platform.
For 480GB version of the A1000 SSD, Kingston is declaring maximum bandwidth of 1500MB/s read and 900MB/s write.
ATTO Disk Benchmark is showing us results clearly better than the declared bandwidth. Maximum read is going up to 1632MB/s while maximum write up to 1027MB/s. It’s more than we were expecting. Results are also pretty consistent. It’s nearly maximum which we can achieve on the x2 PCIe lanes.
Now let’s take a look at the CrystalDiskMark results.
Results in CrystalDiskMark are similar to what we’ve seen in ATTO. Maximum sequential read bandwidth is above 1600MB/s and write is above 1000MB/s. Random performance is even more important and here results are also good. Maybe not as good as these of top NVMe SSD but better than what we can expect of SATA SSD. 4KiB Q1T1 read is above 37MB/s so about as high as that of most popular higher PCIe SSD series. Top drives except maybe Intel Optane have about 45-50MB/s so considering this is entry-level SSD then results are not bad.
One more benchmark – PCMark 8. I wonder when Futuremark, or I should say UL as they’re brand owner right now, will release new storage benchmark. The PCMark 10 doesn’t have separated storage tests so we have to use older version which is still great for storage tests.
Let’s take a look at the results.
PCMark is performing tests on popular applications so is showing real-life workload. Our results are again really good considering it’s not the highest series SSD. Actually it’s one of the best results we’ve had in this benchmark.
The A1000 performs better in all tests than we can read in general specification but I guess that no one will complain at additional performance. For sure it’s interesting SSD and is worth recommendation.
