Performance
Performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform, which features the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, a Gigabyte X870E Pro ICE WiFi 7 motherboard, a Kingston FURY Renegade RGB 96GB DDR5-6400 CL32 memory kit, and a Gigabyte RTX 5070 Ti graphics card. All tests were performed in a Windows 11 Pro x64 environment with the latest updates.
The NV3 SSD was also tested on the DELL Latitude 5340 laptop. However, the performance was better on the desktop motherboard; therefore, the results are presented below.
As usual, I will start with the ATTO Disk Benchmark. It’s one of the most popular storage benchmarks, and the results are easy to compare at home.
ATTO benchmark results are consistently slightly below the maximum specified values, and this is also the case for read bandwidth, which reaches up to 5.88 GB/s. The write bandwidth is up to 5.35 GB/s, which is even higher than the specified value.
CrystalDiskMark shows us even higher bandwidth – nearly 6.3 GB/s read and over 5.7 GB/s write. This is already significantly more than we can see in the NV3’s specifications.
Random bandwidth is also respectable for this type of SSD, around 1 million IOPS.
Let’s look at UL PCMark series benchmarks. In these tests, we can observe how the SSD performs in a mixed-load environment, which simulates a real-world workload.
The results in PCMark 10 are not the highest, but they are pretty good for a 2230 SSD. The bandwidth is comparable to what we see on above-average M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 SSDs.
The 3DMark Storage Benchmark is not the highest, but again, not bad for the 2230 form factor. It’s only slightly lower than popular PCIe 4.0 SSDs from larger series.
The Blackmagic storage benchmark focuses on decoding performance, giving us a different perspective.
The NV3 passes all tests without issues and is capable of decoding at all supported resolutions.
The final tests will include random read and write operations in the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark. These tests take approximately 33 minutes each on the NV3 SSD, which is comparable to the performance of competitive SSDs.
Random read bandwidth reached an average of about 2.88GB/s, while random write bandwidth reached an average of as high as 2.33GB/s. Both results are relatively standard, but it’s not an issue, as we don’t expect anyone to use the NV3 SSD for extended high-load read and write tasks.
The NV3 is not the fastest M.2 2230 SSD on the market, but it delivers respectable performance that should satisfy most users.
