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#196 | RE: Which NVMe Drivers are the best (performance related)? datum

Fri Jul 02, 2021 8:01 pm

Sn750 1tb + Z97 Gryphon + Asus Hyper PCie card

phison driver is my final choice . WD 64 bit installs and runs almost as good drive shows as 'sn730' maybe a quick .inf edit would resolve it all idk

> wd dashboard stops working with any of them worked fine with windows standard nvme driver

>>my M.2 was showing under 'disk drives' in control panel as "wds100xxxxx-00sj" model name only it now shows nvme wds100xxxxx-00sj SCsI disk device

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#197 | RE: Which NVMe Drivers are the best (performance related)? datum

Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:30 pm (Last edited: Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:42 pm)

SN850 1TB - Asus x570-F - phison driver.

Didnt take any screenshots of Samsung and generic driver speeds but the difference is significant, like +8-10% on my setup.

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#198 | RE: Which NVMe Drivers are the best (performance related)? datum

Tue Jul 20, 2021 12:40 am (Last edited: Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:44 pm)

@KGO87 and @addict:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your reports!

Here are the benchmark results I got using different NVMe drivers with my AMD X570 chipset system running Windows 11 Build 22000.51 on a 1 TB Samsung 980 Pro:

1. MS Win11 in-box NVMe driver:

2. Samsung NVMe Driver v3.3.0.2003:

3. Phison NVMe Driver v1.5.0.0:

As you can see, the Phison NVMe driver was far away from being the best for my system.

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#199 | RE: Which NVMe Drivers are the best (performance related)? datum

Tue Jul 20, 2021 2:33 am (Last edited: Tue Jul 20, 2021 2:34 am)

I�m running a wd black 750 tho which is phison I believe .. Also older chipset much older haswell asus board w.asus pcie add in m.2 card

I ended up just using the standard MS nvme driver

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#200 | RE: Which NVMe Drivers are the best (performance related)? datum

6 minutes ago (Last edited: one minute ago)

Recently I have done some new benchmark comparison tests.
I wanted to find out the best performant NVMe driver while running a freshlyinstalled Win11 v21H2 Build 22000.469 on a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD.
For a better informative value I tested
A) an AMD X570 chipset system (supporting PCIe 4.0) and
B) an Intel Z170 chipset system (supporting only PCIe 3.0).

These were the drivers I tested:

Microsoft's generic Win11 in-box NVMe driver v10.0.22000.348 named STORNVME.SYS dated 11/17/2021 (the shown date is wrong)
Samsung's NVMe driver v3.3.0.2003 WHQL dated 01/21/2020 (installation had to be forced, because the HardwareIDs of the 980 Pro NVMe Controller are not listed within the INF file)
Phison's generic NVMe driver v1.5.0.0 WHQL dated 02/23/2018

Here are the benchmark results I got:

A. Intel Z170 Chipset System (PCIe 3.0)

B. AMD X570 Chipset System (PCIe 4.0)

Evaluation of my test results:
All 3 tested NVMe drivers are very performant while running Win11 v21H2.
On my old Intel Z170 chipset system the clear performance winner was Phison's generic NVMe driver (due to the much better Random 4K Q1T1 numbers).
Regarding my AMD X570 system the performance differences were much lower and probably not even noticeable by the user.
My recommendation: Choose the driver, which gives your system the best stability or the lowest power consumption (important for notebooks).

If you want to get any other NVMe driver tested, please let me know it within the next days (as long as the test systems are usable).

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