The Samsung 950 Pro PCIe SSD Review (256GB and 512GB)
by Billy Tallis on October 22, 2015 10:55 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy
Our Heavy storage benchmark is proportionately more write-heavy than The Destroyer, but much shorter overall. The total writes in the Heavy test aren't enough to fill the drive, so performance never drops down to the steady state. This test is far more representative of a power user's day to day usage, and is heavily influenced by the drive's peak performance. The Heavy workload test details can be found here.
Performance of the 950 Pro is comparable to the SM951, which is to say that it's significantly better than everything else we've tested. The penalty when starting with a fill drive is a bit larger than normal, but simply being full isn't enough to tank the performance the way a sustained test can.
Average service time and latency outliers are vastly better than any SATA drive, but NVMe doesn't seem to make a huge difference.
The high performance comes with the price of high power consumption, and the total energy used over the course of this test is significantly higher than all the high-performance SATA drives we're comparing against.
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AntDX316 - Thursday, November 12, 2015 - link
we need REAL-WORLD performance than synthetic benchmarksthis is like how it is with DDR speeds but they do absolutely like nothing even though bandwidth is like 10x in spread difference
SmashingTool - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
" and in order to boot from an NVMe drive your motherborad's firmware needs NVMe support."^ Typo
Ian Cutress - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
Fixed! Thanks :)todlerix - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
How fast does the system boot with the 950 pros? I read the NVMe slows boot times down by a huge amount.Rajinder Gill - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
Considering most people only the system once per day, the wait should not be considered an issue. If one BOOTs the machine many times per day, S3 sleep is a quick way back to the desktop.Rajinder Gill - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
*Considering most people only BOOT the system once per day, the wait should not be considered an issue.bji - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
Even if I only boot my computer once per day, the time spent waiting for it to boot is annoying and I consider boot times important for that reason. When there is little other user-perceivable difference in SSD drives, a boot that happens 3 or 4 seconds faster is a significant factor.Makaveli - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
You know whats equally annoying people that sit and stare at boot screens lol.Go get a bagel, take a piss do something crying over 10 seconds isn't exactly productive.
Rajinder Gill - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
This is called being enthusiastic about the wrong thing. If getting to the desktop matters that much to one's productivity, then using S3 resume would be the "logical" thing to do.Rajinder Gill - Thursday, October 22, 2015 - link
Shame on me for making a rational argument to irrational minds... ;)