Performance: Part 2
Now is time on some storage tests. We will use PCMark 8 as it performs mixed load tests so what we expect to see during daily work and not only quick synthetic benchmark.
The first pair is USB 3.0/3.0 drive on the left and SATA III on the right. For USB tests we’ve used Lexar Professional series USB 3.0 card reader and CFast 2.0 card which is able to run up to 550MB/s so can utilize the maximum theoretical bandwidth of USB 3.0.
SATA performance has been measured with Crucial MX500 SSD.
In both cases performance is high and similar to what we could see on the Z370 motherboards previously reviewed.
Interesting are results of NVMe SSD. In this case in use was Samsung 970 EVO SSD which was tested in two M.2 sockets. On the left is 16Gb/s socket and on the right is 32Gb/s socket. As you can see, the difference is barely visible what is surprising because 16Gb/s socket should limit the maximum bandwidth of this SSD by half to about 1.7GB/s. Mixed tests are showing it’s not really important. Both results are of course high and we can move to the next tests.
