Performance
Performance of Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB M.2 SSD has been tested on ASUS Rampage V Extreme motherboard and Intel i7 5820K processor. Installed operating system was Win8.1 with the latest updates.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO results are about as high as expected. In writes are slightly lower than maximum declared by Kingston while writes are much higher and are passing amazing 1550MB/s !! Not many SSD on the market can reach that bandwidth.
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64
In CrystalDiskMark sequential bandwidth looks nearly the same but read is slightly lower while write is slightly higher. In general we see that HyperX Predator is faster than expected what is of course great.
Random bandwidth is also good but I won’t hide I was expecting higher 4K results. It doesn’t change fact that barely any SSD can pass 32MB/s in random 4K read tests while here we see 43MB/s. Finally we are seeing SSD which are faster also in random transfers.
AS SSD Benchmark
AS SSD results are not much different than we could see in CrystalDiskMark. As usual bandwidth in this test is slightly lower because of a different test procedure.
At the same time we can see the highest total AS SSD score achieved in our redaction on a single drive – 1564 points. It’s about 30% higher than the next in line SSD.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities
Anvil’s tests are showing us additional test schemes where HyperX Predator also looks great. Regardless if we are using small or larger files, performance is exceptional and it’s hard to compare most results to any other, previously tested SSD.
PCMark8
In PCMark8 we can see one more top score. 341MB/s is great result considering heavy multitasking tested on popular aplications and games. I think that especially gamers will appreciate so high performance.
At the end let’s check how HyperX Predator looks like comparing to other, previously reviewed SSD.
In sequential write bandwidth HyperX Predator is nearly twice as fast as most other SSD which are using SATAIII ports. In sequential read we can expect even more with amazing 1.5GB/s+ mark. Not many drives on the market can reach this result.
In random 4K bandwidth it’s not looking as good as in ATTO but is still good. About 30% higher random read is a really good result. Actually not much has changed in random 4K read performance for last two or three years. The latest generation of PCIe SSD and of course HyperX Predator are the first SSD which are improving performance not only in sequential transfers but also in random. Afterall most applications base on random transfers.
Random bandwidth on a larger files looks great on HyperX Predator. Both read and write are about twice as high as on any other SSD in this comparison.
Overall HyperX Predator shows exceptional performance. Regardless if you are working on a small or large files, you can be sure it won’t disappoint you.
