Performance
As mentioned, the performance was tested on the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor, Gigabyte X870E Pro ICE motherboard, and 96GB of Kingston Renegade RGB DDR5-6400 RAM. All tests were performed on the Win11 Pro with the latest updates as of November 2024.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
As usual, the ATTO benchmark results are lower than expected, which is quite normal in this benchmark. We can still see close to 7GB/s read and 6GB/s write.
CrystalDiskMark shows us high sequential read and write bandwidth. The sequential writing is lower than expected but still satisfying. Random, low queue read (Q1T1) is pretty high for a DRAM-less SSD.
IOPS are also quite respective at over 1M read and write.
The PCMark 10 results look quite good. Again, the SSD doesn’t have its cache but handles all tasks very well. The results are not the highest, but they are above the average for PCIe 4.0 x4 SSDs, even these most expensive.
Blackmagic benchmark shows that everything works fine. Again, it’s not the highest performance, but it’s still pretty good.
Ultimately, the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
The results are pretty average for Maxio-based SSDs. They’re not bad, but they could be higher, as we could see higher results from MP44 series SSDs some months ago, and those SSDs use the same controllers.
We could say there are faster PCIe 4.0 SSDs, but the C47 is still one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 options, even though it doesn’t have a built-in cache.
We had no problems with thermal throttling, a clear advantage of SSDs with Maxio controllers. All presented tests passed multiple times without issues, and there were no performance drops. Everything was perfectly stable.
