G.SKILL Phoenix Blade 480GB PCIe SSD Review

ATTO & AS-SSD Benchmarks

ATTO v2.47

ATTO is one of the oldest drive benchmarks still being used today and is still very relevant in the SSD world. ATTO measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and places the data into graphs that can be very easily interpreted. The test was run with the default runs of 0.5KB through 8192KB transfer sizes with the total length being 256MB.

ATTO – Intel Z97 Platform:

Benchmark Results: As usual, the best-case-scenario ATTO benchmark is where the SandForce controllers shine and both reads and writes are pushing a blistering 2000MB/s performance score.

AS-SSD (1.7.4739.38088) Benchmark – Intel Z97 Platform:

We have been running the AS-SSD Benchmark app for over some time now and found that it gives a broad result set. The programmer has worked very hard on this software and continues to make updates often so if you use it, show him some love and send him a donation. There are now three tests that are found within the tool and we’ll show the results from two of them.

Benchmark Results: These results are more like real world performance as the data is incompressible so the controllers can’t leverage compression to boost performance. The sequential scores are pretty close to the those of the published specifications of 1900MB/s reads and 1050MB/s reads.

Benchmark Results: By know we all know that SandForce controllers are heavily performance dependent on the type of data (compressible and non) being written and the graph does show the relationship between compressibility and performance.