Lexar NM790 with Heatsink 4TB SSD Review

The 3DMark Storage Benchmark uses traces recorded from popular games and gaming-related activities to measure real-world gaming performance.

Traces used:

Battlefield V
Loading Battlefield™ V from launch to the main menu.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Loading Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.

Overwatch
Loading Overwatch® from launch to the main menu.

Game Move
Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.

Game Recording
Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch®.

Installing Game
Installing The Outer Worlds® from the Epic Games Launcher.

Game Saving
Saving progress in The Outer Worlds game.

In 3DMark’s Storage Test, the NM790 with Heatsink had an average game loading bandwidth figure for the three games of 927.81MB/s which is the the third fastest average for a Gen 4 drive behind the standard NM790 and Crucial's T500. The average access time for the three game traces was 55.66µs.

In the game moving, recording, installing and saving test traces the drive averaged 1,009MB/s with an average access time of 47.25µs for the four tests.

The average bandwidth for the 4TB Lexar NM790 with Heatsink for the complete benchmark run was 637.97MB/s just slightly slower than the standard NM790 drive.

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