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 NV7000-Q had an average game loading bandwidth figure for the three games of 1,044.82MB/s which is the second fastest average for a 1TB Gen4 drive with an average access time of 60µs.
In the game moving, recording, installing and saving test traces the drive averaged 1,013.64MB/s with an average access time of 50.5µs for the four tests.
The average bandwidth figure for the 1TB Netac NV7000-Q for the complete benchmark run was 597.72MB/s which puts the drive into second position in the results chart but a fair distance back from the leading Solidigm drive.