I honestly don’t think any of this matters anymore. SSD in general is just good for gaming
I haven’t even ‘upgraded’ from Sata SSD to nvme because…why bother. computer already boots within 5 seconds, it doesn’t need to boot in 1. all games perform flawless. this is just mix/maxing at this point and honestly nobody would notice a gaming difference between 550mb/sec vs 3000mb/sec
The main benefit of nvme for me was the form factor since they are sit on the motherboard without needing any power or sata cords to route around the case.
They make me want to build a small form factor case because the only connections to route would be power to the mobo!
I honestly don’t think any of this matters anymore. SSD in general is just good for gaming
As the article shows, in some games it does matter enough to be probably something where you can “feel” the difference between a SATA vs NVMe SSD. There’s no need to guess or speculate here, the article has several measurements with differences that I’d consider a non-trivial between SATA and NVMe SSD speeds:
10 seconds difference (~50%) in first load time of Assassin’s Creed Shadows
10 seconds difference (~33%) in first load time of Black Myth Wukong
3 seconds difference (>50%) in quick travel load time in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
15 seconds difference (~33%) in first load time of Kingdom Come Deliverance II
10 seconds difference (~50%) in load into game time of The Last of Us Part II
8 seconds difference (~70%) in first load time of Spider-Man 2
5 seconds difference (~80%) in first load time of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
In several of these, the SATA SSD has performance similar to the hard drives, not to the NVMe SSDs. Of course, there are also many results where just having an SSD – regardless of what type – seems to be enough. Is it enough to justify upgrading an existing SATA SSD just for performance reasons? For most people, probably not - but it’s worth knowing what real difference there can be in real-world situations. It’s certainly nice to save a few minutes of cumulative load time every week if you play some of these types of games regularly though. (And for those with NVMe SSDs already, yeah, even in the above cases there seems to be only a trivial difference.)
I assume there will be some non-zero number of new releases making good use of DirectStorage, so if for anyone who tends to play new releases then it may matter increasingly more too, though it of course depends on what a person plays.
I honestly don’t think any of this matters anymore. SSD in general is just good for gaming
I haven’t even ‘upgraded’ from Sata SSD to nvme because…why bother. computer already boots within 5 seconds, it doesn’t need to boot in 1. all games perform flawless. this is just mix/maxing at this point and honestly nobody would notice a gaming difference between 550mb/sec vs 3000mb/sec
The main benefit of nvme for me was the form factor since they are sit on the motherboard without needing any power or sata cords to route around the case.
They make me want to build a small form factor case because the only connections to route would be power to the mobo!
Just imagine when onboard graphics are even better!
As the article shows, in some games it does matter enough to be probably something where you can “feel” the difference between a SATA vs NVMe SSD. There’s no need to guess or speculate here, the article has several measurements with differences that I’d consider a non-trivial between SATA and NVMe SSD speeds:
In several of these, the SATA SSD has performance similar to the hard drives, not to the NVMe SSDs. Of course, there are also many results where just having an SSD – regardless of what type – seems to be enough. Is it enough to justify upgrading an existing SATA SSD just for performance reasons? For most people, probably not - but it’s worth knowing what real difference there can be in real-world situations. It’s certainly nice to save a few minutes of cumulative load time every week if you play some of these types of games regularly though. (And for those with NVMe SSDs already, yeah, even in the above cases there seems to be only a trivial difference.)
I assume there will be some non-zero number of new releases making good use of DirectStorage, so if for anyone who tends to play new releases then it may matter increasingly more too, though it of course depends on what a person plays.
For those shitty AAA games with a download size of 200gb it probably matters, but those games dont matter to ME, so i dont care.
See the article.
But also, I have a sata and nvme ssd in my rig, and I notice the difference (blindly) when I accidentally put something on the wrong drive.
It’s even more dramatic for some non gaming stuff.