I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss

Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by ______-_-______ on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:11PM (#30422928)

I use rtings.com every time I buy a monitor.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/table

They rigorously test their hardware and you can filter/sort by literally hundreds of stats.

I just built a PC and I would have killed for a site that had apples-to-apples benchmarks for SSDs/RAM/etc. Motherboard reviews especially are a huge joke. We're badly missing a site like that for PC components.

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by Ajedi32 on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:24PM (#30423004)

> I just built a PC and I would have killed for a site that had apples-to-apples benchmarks for SSDs/RAM/etc.

Userbenchmark has benchmarks for SSDs[1] and RAM[2]. Can't help you with motherboards though.

[1]: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/

[2]: https://ram.userbenchmark.com/

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by gruez on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:49PM (#30423166)

I can't take them seriously for anything because of their CPU benchmark debacle.

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by throwaway2037 on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:10PM (#30423293)

I never heard about this. Can you share a link? I am interested to learn more.

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by ______-_-______ on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:29PM (#30423411)

Just google userbenchmark bias. Basically, when AMD shook things up a few years ago with huge numbers of cores, UserBenchmark responded by weighting down the importance of multithreaded workloads in their scores, so Intel would stay on top. Now their site is banned from most subreddits, including both r/intel and r/amd.

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by dralley on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:52PM (#30436120)

You can get the gist by reading through this thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/dzdacg/userbenchm...

It wasn't one event, more like the ratings for CPUs just became laughably, transparently, utterly worthless, to the point where Intel i3 laptop CPUs were scoring higher than top-end AMD Threadripper CPUs. And they refused to acknowledge any issues.

Within a month or two after AMD started shipping CPUs with more than 8 cores, they tweaked the algorithm to ignore >8 cores. And various other ridiculous changes that hurt AMD's rankings.

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by throwaway2037 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:54PM (#30522689)

Why was this downvoted? It is a useful post!

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by NavinF on Monday February 21, 2022 @11:52PM (#30424120)

Unfortunately Userbenchmark is totally useless for comparing components. They don’t even attempt to benchmark one change at a time while keeping all other parts of the testbench identical.

Worse yet every time I benchmark one of my machines, I score significantly higher than the average user results for the same hardware. Perhaps the average submitter has crapware/antivirus installed or their machines are misconfigured (e.g. XMP disabled) which makes all their data suspect.

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by ______-_-______ on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:21PM (#30423357)

I appreciate the links. But it's tough to believe stats uploaded by random users, especially when we're only talking a few percent difference. Not to mention, if you sort by "avg bench %", apparently WD released an NVMe drive that's faster than Intel Optane. You'd think that would have made the news.

fwiw the best motherboard comparison I found was on overclock.net[1]. It didn't list everything I cared about, but it was a great starting point

[1]: https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-intel-z690-mother...

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Re:I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLU... by Ajedi32 on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:21PM (#30423665)

Individual benchmarks uploaded by random users would be hard to trust yes, but UserBenchmark collects thousands. If you click through to the page for a given product it'll even show you a distribution graph of the collected scores from different real-world machines.

> apparently WD released an NVMe drive that's faster than Intel Optane

"Faster" is a matter of opinion; it depends on what you're optimizing for. Optane obviously has faster random reads, but it's not so great at sequential writes. The UserBenchmark score tries to take all of that into account: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-905P-Optane-NVMe...

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