Patriot Viper VPN110 NVMe M.2 SSD Review

Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what hardware is being tested.  These were recorded using Sandra Professional Version 31.60.2021.12

Crystal Disk Mark is a widely available disk benchmarking program that can test a variety of different scenarios from Sequential to Random with Multiple and Single queues.

For our tests the Sequential and Random test with multiple queues and threads will be recorded.

PCMark 10 is an overall system benchmark to measure and compare PC performance using real-world tasks and applications. Similar to 3DMark this new version tests the entire system as a whole using applications that reflect typical PC use in the home and at the office.  This approach ensures that PCMark measures the things that matter, highlighting performance differences that will be apparent to end users and consumers.

SYSmark 25 is an application-based benchmark that reflects usage patterns of business users in the areas of Productivity, Creativity and Responsiveness. The new Productivity Scenario has updated workloads and applications geared towards office centric user activities. The new Creativity Scenario features updated workloads and applications geared toward media-centric user activities. The new Responsiveness Scenario models ‘pain points’ in the user experience. These common activities that include: application launches, file launches, web browsing with multiple tabs, multi-tasking, and background application installation.

These benchmarks show an interesting cross section and illustrate just how closely matched many NVMe drives can be.  Across the board the Viper Gaming VPN110 trades punches with the Mushkin Pilot with the VPN110 coming out on top most often than not.  The Lexar NM610 is a lower end and less expensive NVMe drive and it shows across the synthetic benchmarks. 

I opted to test the Patriot VPN110, and the other drives, on both Windows 11 and the Intel Core i7 12700k.  Sadly, benchmarks are still getting updated to run on Windows 11 and to keep things fair these drives were hooked into the PCI Express Gen3 portion of the Z690 chipset.