Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform that contains the Ryzen 9 7950X, 16-core processor, Gigabyte X870E AORUS Pro ICE motherboard, Kingston Renegade RGB 96GB DDR5-6400 memory kit, and Acer Predator GM7000 2TB M.2 SSD with installed Win11 Pro x64. All tests were performed on the Silicon Power UD90 2TB M.2 2230 SSD.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
As usual in the ATTO benchmark, the read bandwidth is not as high as we wish, but 4.81GB/s is not far from the declared performance. On the other hand, 4.63GB/s write bandwidth is significantly higher than the specified maximum, which is supposed to be 3.2GB/s.
In CrystalDiskMark, the sequential bandwidth reaches 5.18GB/s, while the low queue 4K random read is over 67MB/s, and IOPS is up to 758K. We wish to see a higher random low queue bandwidth, but all these numbers are pretty high for an M.2 2230 SSD, so we can’t complain.
In PCMark 10, the results are slightly lower than those of the top M.2 2230 SSD, but they are also not bad, and we could even say that they are pretty good considering the SSD’s purpose.
3DMark Storage Benchmark repeats the story. We wish to see a score of about 3 K, so 2.76K is slightly below expectations. One more time, it’s not bad, as it’s fast enough for everything, but it could be better.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a rather old benchmark, but still popular. Although it usually shows lower results than the ATTO or the CrystalDiskMark, this doesn’t change the fact that the results are pretty high. One more time, we can see that the write bandwidth is higher than specified.
The Blackmagic storage benchmark focuses on decoding performance, giving us a different perspective.
The UD90 does not have the highest, but it still has pretty good results. What’s most important is that it handles all the decoding formats. In this test, we can also see a higher-than-expected write bandwidth – up to 4GB/s.
Ultimately, the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
Both results are pretty average for SSDs with QLC NAND. The write bandwidth is significantly lower than that of the TLC series. It doesn’t change much in daily work, and gaming mainly uses reading, but it’s still worth mentioning.
The UD90 SSD didn’t throttle at all in all our tests. Even extended tests like AIDA64 didn’t show any issues. The SSD was perfectly stable and delivered constant performance in all tests.
