Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform, which contains the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, ASUS Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard, Kingston FURY Renegade 32GB DDR5-7200@6200 memory kit, and Colorful RTX4080 Advanced OC graphics card.
All tests were performed in Windows 11 Pro x64 environment with the latest updates. Windows 10 Pro x64 would probably give us better results as Microsoft still hasn’t fixed some performance issues in the latest OS. Either way, the results are great, and you can check them below.
As usual, in my storage reviews, I will start with the ATTO Disk Benchmark. It’s one of the most popular storage benchmarks, and results are easy to compare at home.
The ATTO Benchmark results are one of the highest we’ve seen on a single SSD. The maximum read bandwidth is 6.96GB/s, while the maximum write bandwidth is 6.45GB/s. Both values are exceptional.
The CrystalDiskMark results are slightly below the expected. We already reviewed the Predator GM7000 SSD with the same InnoGrit controller, which reached 7400MB/s, while on about the same setup, we haven’t seen more than 7200MB/s sequential read on the C930 SSD. On the other hand, the write bandwidth is a bit better than the specified, going as high as up to 6900MB/s. Also, the IOPS is significantly higher than the specified. On the KLEVV product website, we can see 1000K IOPS, while we could reach 1140K.
UL benchmarks are showing us high results but are also somehow mixed. All PCMark 10 Storage benchmark scores are scaling well and are very high.
However, the 3DMark Storage Benchmark score is significantly lower than we could see on some other, even lower series SSD. The same benchmark was checked on AMD and Intel test rigs with similar results. Maybe the latest Windows updates are causing that or something else. We have had no chance to compare it yet with other SSD with similar specifications.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is an older benchmark but still popular, so why not use it?
Results in this benchmark are high, just not as high as declared in the SSD specification. It’s not a problem, as every benchmark uses a different test pattern and test files.
The last test is AIDA64, which is quite demanding. This time we will focus on the read performance as it’s the most important for gaming.
In both tests, so sequential and random read, the C930 performs exceptionally well. The sequential read test shows very high results, up to 6.44GB/s, while the random test goes as high as up to 3085MB/s. It’s one of the best results we could achieve on a single SSD.
All the results are very high, with the exception of the 3DMark Storage score, which has to be inspected some more. Probably it’s a matter of software or used Windows release as there is no other test which a similar situation. Either way, the C930 delivers fantastic performance and is clearly worth the recommendation.
