skylake Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 testing with a ASUS P10S-M WS (4401 BIOS) and Intel HD P630 3GB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6 @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS P10S-M WS (4401 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB, Graphics: Intel HD P630 3GB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: 2 x Intel I210 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 5.0.0-31-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.4, Display Server: X Server 1.20.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.0.8, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 IOR 3.2.1 Write Test MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 270.59 |============================================ IOR 3.2.1 Read Test MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 1404.82 |=========================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 Test / Class: BT.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 16727.51 |========================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 Test / Class: CG.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 3687.75 |=========================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 239.32 |============================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 Test / Class: EP.D Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 238.78 |============================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 Test / Class: FT.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 8782.73 |=========================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 Test / Class: LU.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 17826.45 |========================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 Test / Class: MG.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 8224.45 |=========================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.4 Test / Class: SP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 5120.73 |=========================================== TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 1367377 |=========================================== OSPray 1.8.5 Demo: San Miguel - Renderer: SciVis FPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 7.75 |============================================== OSPray 1.8.5 Demo: XFrog Forest - Renderer: SciVis FPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 1.27 |============================================== OSPray 1.8.5 Demo: San Miguel - Renderer: Path Tracer FPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 0.65 |============================================== OSPray 1.8.5 Demo: NASA Streamlines - Renderer: SciVis FPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 9.43 |============================================== OSPray 1.8.5 Demo: XFrog Forest - Renderer: Path Tracer FPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 0.69 |============================================== OSPray 1.8.5 Demo: Magnetic Reconnection - Renderer: SciVis FPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 7.62 |============================================== OSPray 1.8.5 Demo: NASA Streamlines - Renderer: Path Tracer FPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 1.93 |============================================== OSPray 1.8.5 Demo: Magnetic Reconnection - Renderer: Path Tracer FPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 100 |=============================================== Embree 3.6.1 Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Crown Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 4.76 |============================================== Embree 3.6.1 Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Crown Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 5.50 |============================================== Embree 3.6.1 Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Asian Dragon Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 5.82 |============================================== Embree 3.6.1 Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Asian Dragon Obj Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 5.18 |============================================== Embree 3.6.1 Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Asian Dragon Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 6.95 |============================================== Embree 3.6.1 Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Asian Dragon Obj Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 5.94 |============================================== SVT-AV1 0.7 Encoder Mode: Enc Mode 4 - Input: 1080p Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 1.55 |============================================== SVT-AV1 0.7 Encoder Mode: Enc Mode 8 - Input: 1080p Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 16.72 |============================================= ACES DGEMM 1.0 Sustained Floating-Point Rate GFLOP/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 1.12 |============================================== Intel Open Image Denoise 1.0.0 Scene: Memorial Images / Sec > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 3.90 |============================================== LuxCoreRender 2.2 Scene: DLSC M samples/sec > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 0.92 |============================================== LuxCoreRender 2.2 Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism M samples/sec > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 0.88 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 160.43 |============================================ Tungsten Renderer 0.2.2 Scene: Hair Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 59.54 |============================================= Tungsten Renderer 0.2.2 Scene: Water Caustic Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 40.80 |============================================= Tungsten Renderer 0.2.2 Scene: Non-Exponential Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 14.51 |============================================= Tungsten Renderer 0.2.2 Scene: Volumetric Caustic Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 19.44 |============================================= Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 10.10 |=============================================