Samsung

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB

Samsung 990 ProReleased October 18, 2022Launch price $289 (2TB at launch (Tom's Hardware))

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3DMark Storage 4,816points#7 of 11 PCMark 10 Storage 4,651points#8 of 11 Sustained write 1,400MB/s#9 of 10 3DMark DirectStorage Storage to VRAM, GDeflate14.2GB/s#8 of 8

Samsung's PCIe 4.0 flagship since 2022, with DRAM and a 1,200 TBW rating. Retested against newer Gen4 drives it still scores well in game traces, but its sustained write after the cache is lower than the T500's and the 990 EVO Plus's.

Against the line-up

3DMark Storage points

#7 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB8,100
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB7,337
  3. 3T705 2TB6,739
  4. 4T710 2TB6,647
  5. 6T500 2TB5,068
  6. 7990 Pro 2TB4,816
  7. 8990 EVO Plus 2TB4,753

PCMark 10 Storage points

#8 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB7,694
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB6,893
  3. 39100 Pro 2TB6,597
  4. 4T710 2TB6,583
  5. 7P310 2TB4,674
  6. 8990 Pro 2TB4,651
  7. 9SN7100 2TB4,561

Sustained write MB/s

#9 of 10 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1T500 2TB4,066
  2. 2T710 2TB4,050
  3. 3T705 2TB4,029
  4. 4SN8100 2TB3,892
  5. 8Renegade G5 2TB1,545
  6. 9990 Pro 2TB1,400
  7. 10SN7100 2TB850

3DMark DirectStorage Storage to VRAM, GDeflate · GB/s

#8 of 8 · StorageReview
  1. 1SN8100 2TB26.1
  2. 2T710 2TB26
  3. 3T705 2TB25.8
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB23.8
  5. 7P310 2TB14.8
  6. 8990 Pro 2TB14.2

LLM load time DeepSeek R1 32B · s, lower is better

#5 of 6 · StorageReview
  1. 1SN8100 2TB4.29
  2. 29100 Pro 2TB4.37
  3. 3T710 2TB4.46
  4. 4Renegade G5 2TB4.65
  5. 5990 Pro 2TB5.11
  6. 6P310 2TB5.48

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.

3DMark Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run 4,128points StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review
4,816points Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

PCMark 10 Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 4,651points Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review
Data Drive
one source		 7,173points StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

Sustained write

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 1,400MB/s Tom's Hardware, Mar 18, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Steady state: average MB/s after 15 minutes of 1MiB sequential writes at QD32. Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

LLM load time

SettingResultSource
DeepSeek R1 32B
one source		 5.11s StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
Average of 10 loads. Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

3DMark DirectStorage

SettingResultSource
Storage to VRAM, GDeflate
one source		 14.2GB/s StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero
Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

Sources

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