Samsung

Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB

Samsung 990 EVO PlusLaunch price $149.99 (2TB, price at launch (Tom's Hardware))

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3DMark Storage 4,753points#8 of 11 PCMark 10 Storage 4,514points#10 of 11 Sustained write 1,777MB/s#6 of 10 CrystalDiskMark sequential Read7,116MB/s#8 of 9

A DRAM-less drive that runs at PCIe 4.0 x4 or 5.0 x2, with Samsung's newer V8 flash. It scores about the same as the 990 Pro in Tom's 3DMark and PCMark traces for less money, and holds a higher write speed once its cache is full.

Against the line-up

3DMark Storage points

#8 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB8,100
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB7,337
  3. 3T705 2TB6,739
  4. 4T710 2TB6,647
  5. 7990 Pro 2TB4,816
  6. 8990 EVO Plus 2TB4,753
  7. 9P310 2TB4,666

PCMark 10 Storage points

#10 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB7,694
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB6,893
  3. 39100 Pro 2TB6,597
  4. 4T710 2TB6,583
  5. 9SN7100 2TB4,561
  6. 10990 EVO Plus 2TB4,514
  7. 11SN850X 2TB3,846

Sustained write MB/s

#6 of 10 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1T500 2TB4,066
  2. 2T710 2TB4,050
  3. 3T705 2TB4,029
  4. 4SN8100 2TB3,892
  5. 59100 Pro 2TB1,867
  6. 6990 EVO Plus 2TB1,777
  7. 7SN850X 2TB1,606

CrystalDiskMark sequential Read · MB/s

#8 of 9 · StorageReview; † another publication
  1. 1SN8100 2TB14,307
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB14,302
  3. 3T710 2TB14,293
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB14,287
  5. 7T500 2TB7,120†
  6. 8990 EVO Plus 2TB7,116
  7. 9P310 2TB7,017

The whole SSDs line-up side by side, with prices

Every benchmark

Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.

CrystalDiskMark sequential

SettingResultSource
Read 7,296MB/s KitGuru, Dec 30, 2024
CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)
7,116MB/s Tom's Hardware, Oct 28, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K
Peak sequential read, 1MB QD8
7,140MB/s StorageReview, Oct 22, 2024
Published as 7.14GB/s, converted to MB/s; five passes, 32GB file
Write 5,827MB/s KitGuru, Dec 30, 2024
CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)
5,917MB/s Tom's Hardware, Oct 28, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K
Peak sequential write, 1MB QD8

3DMark Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 4,753points Tom's Hardware, Oct 28, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K

PCMark 10 Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 4,514points Tom's Hardware, Oct 28, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K

Sustained write

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 1,777MB/s Tom's Hardware, Oct 28, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K
Steady state: average MB/s after 15 minutes of 1MiB sequential writes at QD32

Sources

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