12-26-19
Intel Core i7-8550U testing with a LENOVO LNVNB161216 (8LCN18WW BIOS) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 4GB on Ubuntu 19.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO LNVNB161216 (8LCN18WW BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB + 256GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 4GB (1354/3504MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC236, Network: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac

	OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.3.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 435.21, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


SQLite 3.30.1
Timed SQLite Insertions
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 44.47 |=============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 20170503
64MB Read - 32 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 14218.53 |==========================================


Threaded I/O Tester 20170503
64MB Write - 32 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 11.94 |=============================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 4967 |==============================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 11.11 |=============================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 7.392
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 5.48 |==============================================


Crafty 25.2
Elapsed Time
Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 7426047 |===========================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.33
HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 437 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.33
Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 72 |================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 267.67 |============================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 12.68 |=============================================


POV-Ray 3.7.0.7
Trace Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 187.23 |============================================


LZMA Compression
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 318.20 |============================================


dcraw
RAW To PPM Image Conversion
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 42.12 |=============================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 9.21 |==============================================


FFmpeg 4.0.2
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 7.48 |==============================================


GnuPG 1.4.22
2GB File Encryption
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 13.02 |=============================================


Minion 1.8
Solitaire
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 70.72 |=============================================


Sudokut 0.4
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 11.05 |=============================================


Tachyon 0.98.9
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 16.47 |=============================================


OpenSSL 1.1.1
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 814.05 |============================================


PyBench 2018-02-16
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 1080 |==============================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.29
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 20473.40 |==========================================


Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2
Global Illumination + Image Synthesis
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus . 3.80 |==============================================