ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro SSD Review: Strong Performance, Aggressive Price

Name: ADATA SX8200 Pro
Brand: ADATA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, March 21, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT

ADATA SX8200 Pro NVMe SSD: PCMark Storage 2.0 Tests

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We like PCMark's Storage 2.0 benchmark module for its real-world application measurement approach to testing. PCMark offers a trace-based measurement of system response times under various scripted workloads of traditional client / desktop system operation. From simple application start-up performance, to data streaming from a drive in a game engine, and video and photo editing with Adobe applications, we are comfortable that these tests reasonably illustrate the performance profile of SSDs in an end-user / consumer PC usage model, more so than a purely synthetic transfer test.

Futuremark's PCMark Storage 2.0

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The ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro performed particular well in the trace-based PCMark Storage tests. Although the deltas separating today's fast, NVMe SSDs are quite small, the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro manages to pull off a first place victory nonetheless. It offered the best all-around performance in the individual sub-tests, the highest bandwidth score, and the best overall score of the bunch.