Performance
As I mentioned, the performance was tested on the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processor, Gigabyte B650E Master motherboard, and 48GB of TeamGroup Xtreem DDR5-8000 RAM, set at DDR5-6400 CL32. All tests were performed on the Win11 Pro with the latest updates as of July 2024.
Let’s begin as usual with the ATTO Disk Benchmark.
The ATTO benchmark results are lower than expected, as usual, and again, it’s normal. We can still see close to 7GB/s read and 6.4GB/s write.
CrystalDiskMark shows us great sequential read and write bandwidth. Both results are above the declared. On the other hand, the random, low queue read (Q1T1) is pretty low. We could expect around 80MB/s, like on some competitive Innogrit-based SSDs or even DRAM-less Maxio or Phison series.
IOPS are already quite respective at over 1M read and write.
The results in PCMark 10 look quite good. Innogrit-based SSDs handle this test well. The results are not the highest but are above the average for PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD.
Blackmagic benchmark shows that everything works fine. Again, not the highest performance, but still pretty good.
Ultimately, the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark results in random read and write operations.
The results are once again above the average but still fall short of the top of the list. The random write bandwidth passed 2800MB/s, about 200MB/s higher than the read bandwidth.
The G70 Pro 4TB performs well, but we can clearly say there are faster PCIe 4.0 SSDs around. We had no problems with thermal throttling or a cache size. All presented tests passed multiple times without issues. There were no repeatable performance drops. What you see on some screenshots (mainly AIDA64) is random and doesn’t happen in every pass (probably related to other components or services running in the background).
Looking at the product itself, we would think it’s targeted for the highest performance and isn’t cheap. Surprisingly, the most significant advantage of the G70 Pro is the performance-to-price ratio, which gives us one of the most affordable 4TB SSDs that also performs well.
