Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test.
Total Storage Bandwidth
With all of the results combined, we can look at performance in terms of throughput rather than time. The tide starts to turn when we dive into light real-world workloads. The 850 EVO's SLC cache accelerates the 2TB model past both of the 850 Pros. I wouldn't think this could be true without seeing it firsthand, but Samsung managed to make a TLC-based SSD better than its MLC-based counterpart. Of course, that won't hold true in all workloads. However, the 2TB 850 EVO masks TLC's weaker performance so well that we actually prefer it.
30-year-old Pentium FDIV bug tracked down in the silicon — Ken Shirriff takes the microscope to Intel's first-ever recall
Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.2 claims to improve Arrow Lake performance by up to 33%, theoretically matching the Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Empyrean Technology gives control to CEC after U.S. blacklisting — China’s top developer of chip design systems hands reins to state-owned firm
