Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform that contains the Ryzen 9 7950X, 16-core processor, Gigabyte X870E AORUS Pro ICE motherboard, Kingston Renegade RGB 96GB DDR5-6400 memory kit, and Acer Predator GM7000 2TB M.2 SSD with installed Win11 Pro x64. All tests were performed on the Crucial T500 4TB SSD.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
As usual in the ATTO benchmark, the results are not as high as we wish, but 6.43GB/s read and 6.35GB/s write bandwidth are still pretty good.
In CrystalDiskMark, the sequential bandwidth reaches 6.85GB/s, while the low queue 4K random read is over 85MB/s, and IOPS is up to 1330K. Since a motherboard with an AMD chipset was used for the tests, these results are as high as expected. The 2TB version of the T500 is faster in sequential bandwidth, but random operations are not much different. These results are pretty good for PCIe 4.0 SSD.
In PCMark 10, the results are also slightly lower than those of the T500 2TB SSD, but this is expected, given the general specifications. The results are still very high compared to all newer SSD series, and only PCIe 5.0 SSDs are faster.
3DMark Storage Benchmark also shows the T500 on top of the PCIe 4.0 SSDs list, except that the 2TB version is slightly faster.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a rather old benchmark but is still popular. Although it usually shows lower results than the ATTO or the CrystalDiskMark, this doesn’t change the fact that the results are pretty high.
The Blackmagic storage benchmark focuses on decoding performance, giving us a different perspective.
The T500 does not have the highest, but it still has pretty good results. What’s most important is that it handles all the decoding formats.
Ultimately, the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
Both results are pretty average for SSDs with Phison E25/E26 controllers. Additionally, we can see that the T500 may show a performance drop during extended large data write. It’s normal and typically shows between 10% and 30%, while in our test, it’s a bit above 30%.
The T500 SSD didn’t throttle at all in all our tests. The temperature was around 50°C for most tests, which is pretty low for any SSD series. Our test results confirm the high performance of the T500 SSD, and even though we could see many new competitive SSD series, it’s still at the top of the list and a highly recommended option.
