Hi Lucian,
SAM's time series results in SAM depend on the weather data you use for the simulation. If you use a "typical meteorological year" weather file, then the results are similar to P50 results. For more about different kinds of weather data, see the best practices handbook referenced here:
sam.nrel.gov/weather-data/weather-data-publications.html
If you have a collection of weather files representing the solar resource over multiple years, you can also use SAM's P50/P90 feature to calculate P50 values of annual energy and other metrics. You can find a paper on P50/P90 analysis in SAM at the page I linked above, and a video demonstrating how to use it here:
sam.nrel.gov/simulation-options.html
Best regards,
Paul.