For our PCMark 8 Professional test, we also decided to run two separate passes on the native Windows 10 NVMe driver and Samsung's NVMe driver rev. 2.1. Both benchmarks were performed in Accelerated OpenCL mode.



In the native Windows 10 NVMe driver benchmark, the Samsung SM961 256GB drive gets a total score of 4,546.



In the Samsung NVMe driver rev 2.1 benchmark, the Samsung SM961 256GB drive gets a total score of 4,506.