Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform that contains the Ryzen 9 7950X, 16-core processor, Gigabyte B650E AORUS Master motherboard, 32GB DDR5-4800 memory kit, and Crucial P5 Plus 1TB M.2 SSD with installed Win11 Pro x64. All tests were performed on the Crucial P3 2TB SSD.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
Results in ATTO benchmarks are always slightly lower than expected, so we are glad to see 3.46GB/s maximum read and 3.20GB/s maximum write. The read bandwidth is a couple of MB/s shy of the declared maximum, but the writes are 200MB/s higher.
In CrystalDiskMark, our results are significantly higher than expected, with a maximum read bandwidth of 3666MB/s and a maximum write of 3287MB/s. Additionally, the benchmark shows nearly 750k IOPS, which is amazing for a cheaper SSD.
In PCMark 10, the results are also surprisingly good. The Data Drive Benchmark shows a higher bandwidth than on some highest SSD on the market, including our result on the Crucial P5 Plus some months ago.
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 quite high.
In the end, AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
In both cases, so read and write, we can count on about 3000-3300MB/s. I’m not sure if the test platform gives such a high boost to this SSD or if it’s really so fast, but these results are again better than on some PCIe 4.0 SSD reviewed in the past. Either way, the SSD performs exceptionally in every task.
I won’t hide I’m surprised at how well the P3 looks in tests. It’s maybe not the fastest SSD on the market, and there are many other options with better results. However, at a similar price, it will be hard to find anything as fast.
