Page 10 - Benchmark: PCMark 8
About PCMark 8
PCMark 8 is the latest version in our series of popular PC benchmarking tools. It is designed to 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. PCMark 8 is 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 a SSD's true capabilities.
Up to this point, the Patriot P300 512GB has shown its budget nature of the drive, which is to say it has performed at about where I would expect. However, all of the previous results were given with the drive being empty, if not near empty. With these tests, we can see what happens to the performance when the drive starts filling up. Overall, the numbers from the Patriot P300 512GB were pretty stable through the three stages. The first graph shows the comparison between the Crucial P1 500GB and this one. The P1 500GB unfortunately produced very poor results in every single region. It should be noted the P1 uses QLC NAND memory compared to the TLC NAND found in the P300 512GB. Compared to the similarly sized WD Blue SN500, the numbers were a bit more comparable, though the SN500 was ahead in all of the phases. The final graph compares a similarly priced Crucial MX500 500GB drive that uses the older SATA interface. These results were even closer, though the Patriot P300 512GB came out on top.
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
