NVME Intel Core i7-9700K testing with a Gigabyte Z390 M GAMING-CF (F5c BIOS) and NVIDIA Quadro P620 2048MB on Fedora 29 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus: Processor: Intel Core i7-9700K @ 4.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 M GAMING-CF (F5c BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro P620 2048MB (1265/2504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: CS230, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless-AC 9260 OS: Fedora 29, Kernel: 4.20.13-200.fc29.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 418.43, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 8.3.1 20190223, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 281.50 |============================================ Application Start-up Time 2.4.0 Background I/O Mix: Only Sequential Reads - Application To Start: GNOME Terminal - Disk Target: Default Test Directory sec < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 2.03 |============================================== Application Start-up Time 2.4.0 Background I/O Mix: Sequential Reads + Writes - Application To Start: GNOME Terminal - Disk Target: Default Test Directory sec < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 5.02 |==============================================