We used CrystalDiskMark 8’s custom settings to test the 4K 70/30 mixed read/write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths using a single thread and four threads.
Using a single thread, the AORUS Gen5 10000 performance climbs in a fairly smooth curve from 26,666 IOPS (109MB/s) at QD1 up to 166,740 IOPS (682MB/s) at QD8 where the performance begins to plateau out, finishing the test run (QD32) at 180,251 IOPS (738MB/s). Using four threads the performance climbs from 107,462 IOPS (440MB/s) at QD1 to 502,994 IOPS at QD16 where the performance levels off so that at the end of the test run the drive produces a result of 504,069 IOPS (2,064MB/s).