Samsung 990 PRO 1 TB vs XG7000-1TB 2280

Short answer: which is best?

Samsung 990 PRO 1 TB is 44.4 % stronger than XG7000-1TB 2280. Samsung 990 PRO 1 TB ranks #5 of 101 measured system drives at WhatFPS (15,790 Drive score over 2 verified runs). XG7000-1TB 2280 ranks #34 of 101 measured system drives at WhatFPS (10,934 Drive score over 2 verified runs). The numbers are measured in 4 verified WhatFPS runs — not estimated, not self-reported.

Measured comparison

MetricSamsung 990 PRO 1 TBXG7000-1TB 2280
Drive score (the drive's own performance: sequential read + 4K IOPS)15,79010,934
Best rig (GAMING — whole PC)11,1934,390
Sequential read4,131 MB/s2,581 MB/s
4K IOPS21,21016,257
4K latency, median (lower is better)41 µs58 µs
TypeNVMe SSDNVMe SSD
Size1 TB1 TB

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 Samsung 990 PRO 1 TB · All measurements for XG7000-1TB 2280