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.
In 3DMark’s Storage Test, the drive had an average game loading bandwidth figure for the three games of 1,265.25MB/s (good enough for third place in the results table), with an average access time figure of 41µs (0.041m/s).
In the game moving, recording, installing and saving test traces the drive averaged 1,584.74MB/s with an average access time of 32µs (0.032m/s) for the four tests which see the drive in the penultimate spot in the table.
The average bandwidth figure for the 2TB GENUINE G560 for the complete benchmark run was 871.33MB/s, a result which sees the drive just top of the results table by the smallest amount.