Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform that contains the Ryzen 5 7600, 6-core processor, ASRock B650E PG-ITX motherboard, ADATA Lancer Mera Edition 32GB DDR5-7200@6200 memory kit, and Acer Predator GM7000 2TB M.2 SSD with installed Win11 Pro x64 as OS drive. All tests were performed on the TEAMGROUP Cardea A440 1TB SSD.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
Results in ATTO benchmarks are always slightly lower than expected, so 6.96GB/s is still acceptable. It’s still one of the highest for PCIe 4.0 SSD.
In CrystalDiskMark, we could reach even 7365MB/s sequential read! It’s about as high as possible on AMD motherboards and significantly more than Intel chipsets can handle. IOPS are also much higher than specified. Only the low queue 4K random read could be higher.
In PCMark 10, the results are not as great, but still pretty respectable. The fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD can make about 10% higher results. On the other hand, Cardea A440 isn’t TEAMGROUP’s highest SSD, so I hope we will see better results in future reviews of this brand.
3DMark Storage Benchmark result looks better than PCMark 10’s. It’s also not the best we have seen, but it’s definitely one of the highest PCIe 4.0 scores.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a rather old benchmark but is still popular. This benchmark usually shows lower results than the ATTO or the CrystalDiskMark. Results in this benchmark are never high, but they are lower than expected this time.
Ultimately, the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
Both AIDA64 tests pass surprisingly quickly. Both also give us high bandwidth. Especially write results are high. It confirms the high write IOPS that we could see in CrystalDiskMark.
The Cardea A440 SSD is faster than expected. Considering it’s a PCIe 4.0 SSD, the results in most tests are exceptional. It’s certainly a good option for gamers and all those who count on high performance during daily work.
