Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform that contains the Ryzen 9 7950X, 16-core processor, ASUS Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard, ADATA Lancer Mera Edition 32GB DDR5-7200@8000 memory kit, and Acer Predator GM7000 2TB M.2 SSD with installed Win11 Pro x64. All tests were performed on the XPG S70 Blade 2TB SSD.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
The S70 is one more SSD that couldn’t pass the 7GB/s mark in the ATTO Benchmark, but it was very close, achieving 6.97GB/s.
CrystalDiskMark, as usual, shows us what we were expecting, so the bandwidth is around the declared values. We have reached 7472MB/s read, while write was a little shy of the 6800MB/s, reaching 6734MB/s.
Worth mentioning is a result in RND4K IOPS. The specification suggests 750K IOPS while we were close to 900K IOPS read and over 1240K IOPS write. Both results are exceptional, especially writes.
In PCMark 10, the results are also surprisingly good. The Data Drive Benchmark gives us one of the highest PCIe 4.0 x4 results that we have seen in our redaction.
With so amazing results in PCMark 10, we were expecting that the score in 3DMark Storage Benchmark would also be very high. However, our result is only a bit above 3000 marks. It’s still high, but some recently released PCIe 4.0 SSD are faster.
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. It doesn’t change the fact that the results are pretty high.
In the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark, we focus on random read and write operations.
Both tests show high bandwidth, which is about 1GB/s higher on average than in our last SSD reviews. It proves that the S70 requires a specific environment to show its full performance.
In the end, the ADATA benchmark is included in the SSD ToolBox. Surprisingly, we can see over 7600MB/s in the sequential read and write. The results are pretty consistent with about 100MB/s delta.
The S70 Blade is definitely a fast SSD which is not far from the fastest PCIe 4.0 x4. We wish to see higher results in 3DMark Storage Benchmark, but all other tests passed without issues. However, users may find thermal throttling an issue during extended high-load work. During most tests, we haven’t seen performance drops due to thermal throttling, but tests like PCMark 10 or AIDA64 had to be checked multiple times to be sure about the results. It’s about the same with all previously tested SSD based on Innogrit controllers. As long as you install S70 on a higher series motherboard with a larger heatsink, then you won’t see any throttling. The included thin heatsink is helping, but it’s not good enough.
