Kioxia XG10 (OEM) 1 TB vs Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB

Short answer: which is best?

Kioxia XG10 (OEM) 1 TB is 324.5 % stronger than Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB. Kioxia XG10 (OEM) 1 TB ranks #3 of 72 measured system drives at WhatFPS (17,026 Drive score over 1 verified runs). Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB ranks #65 of 72 measured system drives at WhatFPS (4,011 Drive score over 1 verified runs). The numbers are measured in 2 verified WhatFPS runs — not estimated, not self-reported.

Measured comparison

MetricKioxia XG10 (OEM) 1 TBSamsung 850 EVO 250 GB
Drive score (the drive's own performance: sequential read + 4K IOPS)17,0264,011
Best rig (GAMING — whole PC)11,9945,386
Sequential read5,368 MB/s526 MB/s
4K IOPS18,95510,738
4K latency, median (lower is better)52 µs89 µs
TypeNVMe SSDSATA SSD
Size1 TB250 GB

What the numbers mean

The drive score is the system drive's measured performance in the rigs it sat in — sequential read and 4K IOPS, unbuffered. PCIe generation, fill level and driver affect it. GAMING is the whole rig's score. We show both and never mix them.

All numbers come from our benchmark suite, the same test on every PC, written in Rust with no middleware. The methodology is open at https://whatfps.com/metodik

All measurements for Kioxia XG10 (OEM) 1 TB · All measurements for Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB