Wednesday, May 29th 2019
Gigabyte Shows Off 15 GB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD
With AMD chipset based motherboards like X570 and next-generation Ryzen 3000 series CPUs delivering the 4.0 version of the PCIe protocol for consumers, products based on the faster protocol are bound to take advantage of its improvements - especially in terms of better bandwidth.
At their Computex booth, Gigabyte showed off some pretty impressive results of their PCIe 4.0 based SSD card. The so-called "Auros AIC Gen4 SSD" is a performance monster. It is able to pack up to four PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs that can go up to 2 TB of density each, for a maximum 8 TB total storage. Put them in RAID 0 configuration, though, and you will get some amazing performance numbers. Gigabyte demonstrated speeds exceeding 15 GB/s in sequential reads and writes, providing much more bandwidth than what has ever seen before ina consumer-geared product. The SSD comes with an aluminum shroud with pre-applied thermal pads to facilitate heat dissipation. Additionally, there is a blower fan attached to the card to keep a constant flow of fresh air, which seems like a must if you're packing four M.2 drives inside a tiny aluminum case.
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OC3D.NET
At their Computex booth, Gigabyte showed off some pretty impressive results of their PCIe 4.0 based SSD card. The so-called "Auros AIC Gen4 SSD" is a performance monster. It is able to pack up to four PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs that can go up to 2 TB of density each, for a maximum 8 TB total storage. Put them in RAID 0 configuration, though, and you will get some amazing performance numbers. Gigabyte demonstrated speeds exceeding 15 GB/s in sequential reads and writes, providing much more bandwidth than what has ever seen before ina consumer-geared product. The SSD comes with an aluminum shroud with pre-applied thermal pads to facilitate heat dissipation. Additionally, there is a blower fan attached to the card to keep a constant flow of fresh air, which seems like a must if you're packing four M.2 drives inside a tiny aluminum case.
36 Comments on Gigabyte Shows Off 15 GB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD
Also what are RAM speeds? Because I think this is a solid fraction of what RAM is capable of and I know it's a good possibility that RAM and storage will eventually merge sometime in the 2020s.
I also know that there is always some edge-case where that much storage bandwidth is somehow useful and for more than just moving large files between drives. I installed an NVMe drive with crazy two or three gigabyte read speeds on a client computer about two years ago though the boot and application load speeds didn't improve, at least noticeably. I'm mostly curious where that performance starts to make a difference for someone, even if it's really niche.
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Just cause a gpu has a fan doesn't mean I'll want one on my regular memory sticks
My 128gb Sata SSD does 110.
But Threadripper has yet to offer more
Threadripper is just behind the curtain until Intel refreshes its X series line up which it announced to be happening this fall.
My friend you are going off shores now. You see achieving PCIe Gen 4 speeds and its solid implementation is not easy. The number of lanes coming from the processor is “24”. And yes they are all PCIe Gen 4. Out of which 4 are provided to the southbridge (x570 chipset) and further down stream lanes are offered by x570 they are too PCIe Gen 4. So now comes x470 where the chipset isnt offering any PCIe Gen 4 Support. If you put a ryzen 3rd gen into those boards we have to bear one thing more only the x16 slot will be offered as PCIe Gen 4 in older boards rather then all.
X570 TDP(upto 15w) is higher and has a fan. This has many reason and the most obvious is offering of PCIe Gen 4. The chip itself is expensive and to implement its solid grounds arrangements have to be made. Not all previous motherboards will be delivering PCIe Gen 4 support to us where as x570 will offer full potential of PCIe Gen4.
But if you go by sequential numbers, you may tricked into thinking these new drives are several times faster than what you already have.