HyperX Predator M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD Benchmarked At CES 2016

Kingston was showing off their HyperX Predator NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD last night at Pepcom in Las Vegas. THe HyperX Predator HyperX Predator M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD is the successor to the Kingston HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe SSD AHCI device that used the Marvell 88SS9293 controller. The components on the new version are still unknown, but we are thinking that it still uses a Phison controller with Toshiba NAND Flash Memory.

The benchmark numbers that were being shown were done on CrystalDiskMark v5.1.0 and on a prototype, meaning that performance could get even better before launch. Kingston was not showing off IOPS performance this time around for some reason and cited that the drive wouldn’t be out until later in Q1/Q2 2016 and that they were indeed working on the drives firmware. The Sequential (Queue Depth 32 with one worker) results showed that the prototype HyperX Predator NVMe M.2 480GB PCIe SSD had 1775 MB/s read and 1675 MB/s write speeds on the 0Fill test as an empty secondary drive. These are pretty impressive numbers as the original HyperX Predator AHCI M.2 480GB PCIe SSD was rated at 1400 MB/s read and 1000 MB/s write.

Kingston performed these tests on an Intel NUC mini PC Kit that was running Windows 10 64-bit.

UPDATE 1/7/2016: Steve went back by to visit with Kingston for a second and they were running IOMeter and getting a score of 198,710 IOPS. He wasn’t sure what the test settings exactly were, but chances are this is a 4K random read test.