Benchmarks: CrystalDiskMark 3.0

Using CrystalDiskMark to measure out sequential read functioning nosotros encounter that the Samsung SSD 960 Evo 500GB is twenty% slower than the 960 Pro, that said it yet pushed 2GB/south, which is an impressive effect despite being slower than final year'south 950 Pro and it makes the 960 Evo almost 4x faster than the very best SATA SSDs.

Despite the use of TLC memory, the sequential write operation is particularly impressive. Hither the 960 Evo was just 4% slower than the 960 Pro and thirteen% faster than the 950 Pro. Moreover, it was more than 3x faster than the very best SATA SSDs.

The 960 Evo might take been 23% slower than the 960 Pro for the random 512K read test but with a throughout of near 1GB/s it was nevertheless fast -- just 9% slower than Intel'south 750 Pro series.

One time once again the 960 Evo looks potent when comparison write functioning. This fourth dimension the random 512K write result hitting 1.4GB/s making it just 6% slower than the 960 Pro and almost 3x faster than the fastest SATA SSD.

Interestingly, when measuring 4K read functioning the 960 Evo delivered our strongest result seen yet hitting 63MB/s. This actually made it 11% faster than the 960 Pro and 15% faster than the 950 Pro, so pretty impressive stuff here.

Again we come across incredible 4K performance from the 960 Evo series equally the 500GB drive hit 224MB/s in this write test, or 15% faster than the 960 Pro and 23% faster than the 950 Pro.