Slow NVMe performance

[Ad Hominem]

I recently got a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB M.2 drive to be my fast game library folder. Issue I'm having is that the performance seems to be well below expectations.

Running CrystalDiskMark for benchmarking, sequential read and write are about what you'd expect but the random is below half what I see the drive has done in benchmark tests.

[3 test count] [1GiB] [E:72%] [MB/s]

SEQ1M Q8T1 - 6539.62 / 6277.59
SEQ128K Q32T1 - 6528.03 / 6278.32
RND4K Q32T16 - 2463.65 / 1782.94
RND4k Q1T1 - 79.37 / 137.74

Compare that to the numbers on this review: https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/nvme/samsung-990pro-gen-4-ssd-series-review-samsung-reigns-true-yet-again/3/

The sequential speeds are a little under but nothing that stands out to me, but the random speeds seem significantly below. I notice this in games, where friends also have a samsung NVMe - they are loading in to levels significantly faster than me.

I already have a samsing 970 for my OS that has been working great, but I went and downloaded the samsung drivers as well as samsung magician hoping that would help somehow, but nothing changed.

Overall my system is as follows:
ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
32 GB RAM @ 3600
GIGABYTE RTX 3070 VISION OC (GV-N3070VISION OC-8GD)

Will provide more information if it helps identify the issue. Starting to wonder if I just got a lemon. Is the problem that the drive only has ~28% free space (514GB free out of 1.81TB)?