Samsung 980 Pro low IOPS on random writes

[nexusmera]

I am using Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB, which I bought 8 months ago, in Windows 11 system, both write and read IOPS values are shown as 1 million on its own site, but I get 250 thousand IOPS value in writing while there is no problem in reading. There is no problem in temperature values. There is no problem in the speed test in MB/s, I can get the promised speeds, but there is a problem with the IOPS value.
My SSD drive is up to date.

It has nothing to do with Windows 11 because when I test with my other SSD WD SN570 500 GB on the same system, I get 400k IOPS in random writes.

Is this something that can be solved or is there a problem with the SSD?

Motherboard: MSI B650 Gaming Plus WiFi

 

[SPDIF]

However, I don't understand one thing... Did you buy this SSD to use as a boot drive, or to do benchmarks? You say yourself that it works well and you achieve the promised speeds, I don't really see a problem. Just use it for its intended purpose and move on with your life. Samsung surely will not take back that drive! IOPS say nothing in real life, you won't see it even, and many of them are photo-shopped or use an special program with caching to have higher IOPS.

And with all your benchmark's you are shortening it's life, because of the many write operations that have no use. Even more in real life using it for games or Windows these random writes with many gig's will NEVER happen, so why would you care about that? But, it's your money you are wasting at moment.

I did buy my SSD to use them for what they are made for, NOT for benchmarks... We now have ultra fast drives and yet we begin to benchmark them again as with everything. Many people have a computer for benchmarks only, i use my computer for what it's made for. You will have a different outcome on other computer's anyway.

How much IOPS you achieve depends on many things, too many to mention.