OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G

Agility 3 120GB

▲ Agility 3 120GB
BENCHMARKS (21,074)
MKT (0.1%)
BUILDS
(2)
$102

▲ 53405 ▼

Superseded by the AGILITY4 128GB »

Controller: LSI SandForce SF2281VB1-SDC. Memory: Micron Asynchronous 25nm MLC. Release date: Q2 2011.

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Effective Speed -73%Effective Speed -73%Average User Bench -98%Read -171%, Write -176%, 4K Read -35%, 4K Write -24%, Mixed -101%, 4K Mixed -45%, SusWrite -133%Peak Lab Bench -96%Read -163%, Write -162%, 4K Read -27%, 4K Write -11%, Mixed -110%, 4K Mixed -39%, SusWrite -163%Value & Sentiment -68%User Rating -21%, Market Share -190%, Price 13%, Value -72%Nice To Haves -83%DQ Read -71%, DQ Write -109%, DQ Mixed -51%, ADQ Read -112%, ADQ Write -117%, ADQ Mixed -87%, Age -44%, AS-SSD Total -71%

Market Leaders

Average Bench: 47.8% (835^th of 1011)

Based on 21,074 user benchmarks. Models: OCZ-AGILITY3, OCZ-AGIL ITY3, OCZ-AGIL OCZ-AGILITY3

Poor: 32%Average: 47.8% Great: 61%

Popular builds with this SSD

Below average average bench

The OCZ Agility 3 120GB averaged 52.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 93.2MB/s

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 68.7MB/s

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Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the OCZ Agility 3 120GB is 28.6%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the OCZ Agility 3 120GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 91.1MB/s

Avg. Sequential Write Speed 115MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 21,074 samples)

Rank 83547.8%

Min	Avg	Max
116	Read 150	181
85.3	Write 115	141
103	Mixed 130	153
66	SusWrite 91.1	111
27.2% 122 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
12.9	4K Read 21.8	28.5
26.9	4K Write 68.7	108
15.1	4K Mixed 25.4	33
102% 38.6 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
23.8	DQ Read 122	183
59.3	DQ Write 109	140
24.7	DQ Mixed 93.2	142
76% 108 MB/s

User Benchmarks

Bench

Sequential

Random 4k

Deep queue 4k

The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

USA-User, 4 hrs ago.

51GB free (System drive)

Firmware: 2.22

SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 87 92 88 86 89 MB/s

61.8% Good

Write 115

Mixed 128

SusWrite 88.2

27% 122 MB/s

4K Read 29.2

4K Write 113

4K Mixed 33.7

147% 58.5 MB/s

DQ Read 143

DQ Write 113

DQ Mixed 108

86% 121 MB/s

USA-User, 1 hr ago.

26GB free (System drive)

Firmware: 2.22

SusWrite @10s intervals: 97 80 87 90 94 90 MB/s

58% Above average

Write 118

Mixed 131

SusWrite 89.8

28% 124 MB/s

4K Read 26.8

4K Write 104

4K Mixed 30.5

134% 53.6 MB/s

DQ Read 138

DQ Write 120

DQ Mixed 105

85% 121 MB/s

USA-User, 2 hrs ago.

37GB free (System drive)

Firmware: 2.15

SusWrite @10s intervals: 91 79 88 89 85 85 MB/s

43.2% Average

Write 111

Mixed 124

SusWrite 86.2

27% 119 MB/s

4K Read 20.6

4K Write 49.6

4K Mixed 22.8

87% 31 MB/s

DQ Read 119

DQ Write 113

DQ Mixed 89.8

74% 107 MB/s

GBR-User, 4 hrs ago.

38GB free (System drive)

Firmware: 2.25

SusWrite @10s intervals: 76 93 102 94 98 99 MB/s

36.8% Below average

Write 119

Mixed 138

SusWrite 93.7

28% 125 MB/s

4K Read 22

4K Write 8.3

4K Mixed 20.5

64% 16.9 MB/s

DQ Read 102

DQ Write 121

DQ Mixed 85.3

72% 103 MB/s

CAN-User, 2 hrs ago.

15GB free (System drive)

Firmware: 2.25

SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 84 84 88 78 80 MB/s

34.1% Below average

Write 94

Mixed 118

SusWrite 84.2

21% 94.1 MB/s

4K Read 11.3

4K Write 48.7

4K Mixed 18.2

66% 26.1 MB/s

DQ Read 128

DQ Write 111

DQ Mixed 85.8

74% 108 MB/s

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Gaming 46%

Yacht

Desktop 56%

Gunboat

Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $195Bench 61%, 117,881 samples	4,291x
Core i7-3770KIntel $300Bench 63%, 85,164 samples	2,186x
Core i7-3770Intel $263Bench 60%, 132,773 samples	2,167x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $399Bench 50%, 447,803 samples	1,256x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $240Bench 56%, 642,931 samples	1,255x
GTX 1070Nvidia $409Bench 79%, 656,806 samples	803x

SSD
Agility 3 120GBOCZ $102Bench 48%, 21,074 samples	1x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 50%, 51,430 samples	788x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 49%, 44,156 samples	579x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 15,395 samples	381x

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Value: 36% - Below average

Total price: $696

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Controller: LSI SandForce SF2281VB1-SDC. Memory: Micron Asynchronous 25nm MLC

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9400F $140	Nvidia GTX 1660 $220	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $70
Intel Core i5-9600K $225	Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti $278	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $105
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 $195	Nvidia RTX 2060S (Super) $429	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $203

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $70	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $88
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $606	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $48
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $64	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $73	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $24

OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G

Agility 3 120GB

Average Bench: 47.8% (835^th of 1011)

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX

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OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G

Agility 3 120GB

Average Bench: 47.8% (835th of 1011)

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Good consistency

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX

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Average Bench: 47.8% (835^th of 1011)