PCMark 8’s Consistency test provides a huge amount of performance data, so here we’ve looked a little closer at how the 512GB Intel 760p performs in each of the benchmarks test suites.
Adobe Creative Cloud
The drive deals with the two toughest aspects of the Adobe CC tests, the Photoshop Light and Heavy traces reasonably well. The recovery performance is very good although there is a real dip in performance with the Photoshop Light trace in the penultimate recovery run. The After Effects CC, InDesign and Illustrator traces are dealt with in an extremely efficient manner.
Microsoft Office
All three elements of the MS Office test deal with the stresses of the test very well indeed until the 2nd Recovery phase when all three take a hit in performance, the worst effected being the Word test which drops by 271MB/s. The PowerPoint trace drops by 149MB/s while the Excel trace just drops 50MB/s. However all three recover very well from this performance drop.
The drive gets hit pretty hard during the two casual gaming tests but as with the other test suites in this benchmark the recovery of the drive is first rate.