Friday, June 12th 2020
Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD Rumored to Launch Within Two Months
The Samsung 980 Pro SSD was first revealed at CES 2020, making it Samsungs first consumer PCIe 4.0 SSD. Hardware leaker Ice Universe is claiming that Samsung will release the SSD within the next two months, which puts the latest date for a release in late August if the leak is to be believed. The Samsung 980 Pro should destroy the competition if Samsung's claims are true with advertised maximum sequential reads of 6.5GB/s, and sequential writes of 5GB/s. This is a large jump over Samsung's 970 Pro PCIe 3.0 SSD with advertised speeds of 3.5GB/s and 2.7GB/s, these numbers also offer a significant bump over its fellow PCIe 4.0 competitors such as the Corsair MP600 with advertised speeds 5GB/s and 4.3GB/s.
Source:
@UniverseIce
53 Comments on Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD Rumored to Launch Within Two Months
Serious question to experts, in which areas should we expect improvements?
Next console generation with its focus on fast storage might change this on PC, but more realistically, I expect to see RAM requirements grow instead as a direct compensation for storage speed.
What speed does it average without cheating?
Now... This being Samsung, I'd go out on a limb and say the 980 will be the top dog in the PCIe 4.0 SSD space. There might be better real-world performance but tbh these things are so fast already you'd need to apply this to some huge task just to measure the difference.
Ironic that storage dragged its butt for so long and now it's probably the most unbottleneck-y piece of hardware available.
But.....
But.......
Will this allow us to run Crysis at 623,241.738 FPS ?
Now if the rest of the pc parts & subsystems would just catch up, we could have machines that complete a task before we even get our fingers off the keys/mouse buttons, hahahaha :roll:..:eek:..:laugh:
I really need fancier cables for those
got three other ssd's too,was courious how they perform against sammys
and I get it.
my 860 evo is faster than my 850 pro in every possible way.
even when writing the last couple free gigabytes with small files their newer tlc wins with their mlc.and micron's 3d mlc performs like shieeeeeeeet for comparison,even on a dram cached drive at 50% full.