The 3DMark Storage Benchmark uses traces recorded from popular games and gaming-related activities to measure real-world gaming performance.
Traces used:
Battlefield V
Loading Battlefield™ V from launch to the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Loading Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.
Overwatch
Loading Overwatch® from launch to the main menu.
Game Move
Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.
Game Recording
Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch®.
Installing Game
Installing The Outer Worlds® from the Epic Games Launcher.
Game Saving
Saving progress in The Outer Worlds game.
The drive handles the 3DMark Storage Benchmark really quite well. It has an average bandwidth of 873.03MB/s in the Game Loading test (Battlefield V, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Overwatch) which is good enough to see it in seventh place on the results chart.
In the game moving, recording, installing and saving test traces the drive averaged 1,053MB/s with an average access time of 33µs for the four tests, good enough for the third spot on the results chart.
The average bandwidth figure for the drive was 642.70MB/s, good enough to place the drive in the top five of 2TB Gen 4 drives we've tested to date with this test.