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@6200 memory kit, and Acer Predator GM7000 2TB M.2 SSD with installed Win11 Pro x64. All tests were performed on the Crucial P5 Plus 2TB SSD.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
Results in ATTO Benchmark are, as usual, lower than specified, but at the same time, are high for the P5 Plus SSD. The maximum read is 6.34GB/s, and the maximum write is 4.76GB/s. Around 240-260MB/s shy in both cases.
In CrystalDiskMark, we can see that the tested SSD exceeds the specified values, achieving 6661MB/s read and 5148MB/s write. It’s a pretty good result, even though we wish to see higher numbers.
PCMark 10 results are surprisingly good. Most faster SSD have worse results in this test, while it’s probably the most important for daily work as it simulates home and office workload based on popular applications.
On the other hand, 3DMark Storage Benchmark has a bit disappointing score. It’s not very low, but lower than expected, considering that competitive SSDs reach about a 3300-3400 score.
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.
In the end, the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
Results in random read and write are slightly better than on the last two SSD that we were reviewing. The P5 Plus is about 10% faster in these tests than TEAMGROUP MP44 and Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite. Over 2GB/s random bandwidth is a good result regardless of how we compare it.
The P5 Plus performs well in most of our tests. I wish better results in 3DMark Storage Benchmark, but it’s still not very low. As I mentioned before, most users wouldn’t see the difference between the P5 Plus and the best-performing PCIe 4.0 SSD on the market. P5 Plus is cheaper than most of the competition, but the market asks for a refresh that would perform a bit better. Of course, we have the T700 SSD, but most users don’t have a motherboard compatible with PCIe 5.0 SSD.
