Performance
Performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform, which contains the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, Gigabyte B650E Master motherboard, Kingston Renegade RGB 96GB DDR5-6400 CL32 memory kit, and ASUS Dual EVO RTX4070 Super graphics card.
All tests were performed in a Windows 11 Pro x64 environment with the latest updates.
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 not much different from those on the NV7000-t SSD. The maximum read is up to 6.7GB/s, and the maximum write is 5.47GB/s. Both results are pretty good for a DRAM-less SSD.
The CrystalDiskMark results are also pretty good, but we can already see significant differences compared to the NV7000-t SSD. If the most important low queue random read is about the same, then the Q version has up to 300MB/s lower sequential bandwidth and 300k IOPs less. It shouldn’t matter for most users, but the price difference will tell us which SSD is better.
UL benchmarks show exceptional results, considering the NV7000-Q is a DRAM-less SSD. The results are even better than some of the higher PCIe 4.0 x4 series from the competition.
The 3DMark Storage Benchmark score is about as high as expected. The NV7000-Q performs in this test like most TLC PCIe 4.0 SSDs we had a chance to review before.
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 Blackmagic benchmark results are as high as expected. Multiple passes have shown no issues, and the bandwidth is pretty good.
In AIDA64 random read and write tests, QLC SSD results are also pretty good, but they are already lower than those of most tested TLC SSDs.
No signs of overheating or lack of cache were noticed during these extended tests. Everything passed without issues.
The NV7000-Q isn’t the fastest SSD, but it proves that QLC can be good. It performs not worse than many competitive TLC SSDs and, at the same time, keeps acceptable temperatures, so we won’t see thermal throttling.
