Game Load Time, Workstation, ATTO – ADATA SU670 Ultimate
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Benchmark
The Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Benchmark is a unique game benchmark that allows us to objectively calculate the load times of different game scenes loading on the SSD. This benchmark runs multiple scenes that it benchmarks, it also keeps track of the scene load times for each scene and reports a duration, in addition, it provides an overall average duration of all the scenes together. This provides consistency in testing. We report the overall average scene load time of all the scenes in seconds, lower is better.
Unlike the ATOM 30 NVMe SSD, the ADATA SU670 Ultimate is sitting at the bottom of the pack in terms of game scene load times, it’s about on par with the Silicon Power Ace A55 here. The two SAMSUNG 960 EVO SSDs are faster by a full second. The ATOM 30 NVMe SSD is faster by a full 3.5 seconds compared to the SU670 Ultimate SATA performance for game load times.
SPECworkstation 3.1
We are using SPECworkstation 3.1 and specifically the WPCstorage test. “The storage workload is based on storage transaction traces from a wide variety of professional applications engaged in real work.” It includes media and entertainment, product development, life sciences, energy, and general operations. Each program receives a score, and they are averaged together for an overall score, higher is better.
Surprisingly the ADATA SU670 Ultimate is not the slowest SATA SSD for workstation performance, that lies with the Silicon Power Ace A55, which is pretty slow for workstation apps. Still, the ADATA SU670 Ultimate is the next to slowest, with the SAMSUNG 860 EVO drives performing better.
ATTO
According to ATTO the ADATA SU670 Ultimate is performing just under its quoted write speed and under its quoted read speed. This puts it at the bottom of the chart when compared to the other SATA SSDs here.