Page 10 - Benchmark: PCMark 8
About PCMark 8
PCMark 8 is an industry standard PC benchmarking tool. With PCMark 8 you can test the performance of all types of PC, from tablets to desktops. With five separate benchmark tests plus battery life testing, PCMark 8 helps you find the devices that offer the perfect combination of efficiency and performance. It's the complete PC benchmark for home and business.
From: Developer's Page
PCMark 8 Storage Consistency Test is one of our favorite benchmarks, but also one of the more taxing ones too. Nowadays, many drives are well optimized for high benchmark scores when they are empty, but what separates the professional players from the amateurs is how it stands up to a truly punishing workload. PCMark 8's Storage Consistency Test is designed exactly for this purpose. Going through five phases -- precondition, degradation, steady state, recovery, and clean up -- to extend beyond real world application simulations, this benchmark takes around two days to complete, but the results are revealing of an SSD's true capabilities.
Up to this point, the Crucial P5 500GB has been in the middle of the pack in the benchmarks. However, these benchmarks were performed when the drive was empty, if not near empty. With these tests, we can see what happens to the drive's performance when it starts filling up. Overall, the numbers from the P5 500GB were quite consistent between each of the runs and within each of the stages. The first graph compares the Crucial P5 500GB with the cheaper P2 500GB alternative. The P5 500GB provided notable improvements in all of these regions, which could be attributed to the fact the P5 500GB has onboard DRAM. The second graph compares the Western Digital Black SN750 1TB, which we have regarded as an excellent performing drive. From here, we can see the WD Black drive slightly outperforms our P5 in every stage of the run, but it is fairly close until we get to the recovery phase. Finally, we have comparisons between the P5 and the recently reviewed Kingston KC2500. Our Crucial P5 500GB drive was once again slower in practically all stages with an even more apparent gap in the recovery phase. Overall, these are still good numbers for the Crucial P5 500GB in our more intensive test.
Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 Disk Benchmark
4. Benchmark: ATTO Disk Benchmark
5. Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark 6.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tach 3.0.1.0
7. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 5.70
8. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 10
9. Benchmark: PCMark 7
10. Benchmark: PCMark 8
11. Conclusion
