Performance
The performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform that contains the Ryzen 5 7600, 6-core processor, ASRock B650E PG-ITX motherboard, ADATA Lancer Mera Edition 32GB DDR5-7200@6400 memory kit, and Acer Predator GM7000 2TB M.2 SSD with installed Win11 Pro x64 as OS drive. All tests were performed on the Netac NV7000-t 1TB SSD.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
Results in ATTO benchmarks are always slightly lower than expected, so nearly 7GB/s is a very satisfying result. It’s still a pretty good result compared to all other M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 SSDs that we previously tested.
In CrystalDiskMark, we can see the mentioned 7.4GB/s+ read bandwidth. It’s one of the highest results on the M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD we have seen. On the other hand, we can also see random performance drops, especially in the write bandwidth. Depending on the run, it’s between 4000 and 6700MB/s, so the thermal throttling triggers randomly, and during extended tests, it’s even more visible. We wouldn’t see it while gaming, but not everyone is only playing games.
Over 1000k IOPS is also an amazing result for any SSD, not to mention the NV7000-t doesn’t have DRAM.
In PCMark 10, the results are as high as expected. They’re not the best, but they are still very high compared to other high PCIe 4.0 x4 series.
In 3DMark Storage Benchmark, we couldn’t validate the result as the benchmark said that the SSD was faster than expected. It’s really one of the best results we’ve seen on a PCIe 4.0 SSD!
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. It doesn’t change the fact that the results are pretty high.
In the end, the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
Here we can see the same story as in CrystalDiskMark. The SSD delivers great results, but especially in write tests; it’s randomly throttling, giving us worse average bandwidth. You can see in the screenshot below it doesn’t happen very often, but it still happens.
As long as most users won’t see that in regular work or while playing games, then the SSD throttles during extended tasks. I’m almost sure it could be fixed with firmware, and Netac is working on that, but we couldn’t ignore the fact in our review. If not this issue, then we could say without hesitation that the NV7000-t is a perfect SSD. It’s very fast, doesn’t heat up much, and is inexpensive. You can’t ask much more from an SSD.
