In our read throughput test the Samsung 970 PRO started strongly, peaking at the 2MB block size at 2,990.52MB/s, however the performance does drop off quite sharply, finishing the test at 2,327MB/s
In our write throughput test the drive peaks at 2,797.74MB/s at the 8MB block size before dropping back slightly to finish the test run at 2,776.62MB/s.
In our throughput tests, the 970 PRO comes out on top as the fastest consumer drive we've seen to date for reads and writes.