The EVO15-S we evaluated was equipped with a Samsung 970 Pro NVMe SSD. The 970 PRO combines a PCIe Gen 3x4 NVMe interface with the Samsung's latest V-NAND technology and a newly enhanced Phoenix controller to achieve read/write speeds up to 3,500/2,700 MB/s, approximately 30 percent faster than the previous generation.
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ATTO Disk Benchmark
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Peak Sequential Storage Throughput
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The performance of the Samsung 970 Pro was good across the board, but it achieved peak performance with the mid-sized transfers between 128KB and 512KB. After that performance tapered off a bit, but you are still looking at a snappy SSD regardless.
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Cinebench R11.5
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3D Rendering On The CPU And GPU
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Cinebench tests the CPU and GPU independently and provides a glimpse of raw performance. The test is based on Maxon’s Cinema 4D modeling software that’s used in move productions.
As far as CPU processing power goes the EVO15-S was on point. It was just 4 points off from another laptop we tested with the same processor, making it a statistical tie. However, the OpenGL performance was nearly 15FPS lower than the GTX-1060 (Max-Q) powered Dell G7 15. This test doesn't place a very heavy load on the GPU, however, and different driver revisions can have a significant impact on performance. The numbers don't look good for the Origin notebook, but the actual gaming tests we'll get to later are more meaningful for this machine.
