Wednesday, August 3rd 2022
AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Processor Runs Phison PCIe 5.0 SSD with Micron 232-Layer NAND Flash
During this year's Flash Memory Summit, Phison, a company known for SSD controllers and now flash drives, demonstrated a system running AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors based on Zen 4 architecture. What is interesting about the shown specification is that the system was running an engineering sample of an upcoming Zen 4-based CPU with the latest storage technologies at impressive speeds. Using a Phison PS5026-E26 SSD controller, also called E26, the PCIe 5.0 SSD is powered by Micron's latest 232-layer TLC NAND flash. This new NAND technology will also bring greater densities to the market by promising higher endurance, higher read/write speeds, and better efficiency.
With AMD's upcoming AM5 platform, support for PCIe 5.0 SSDs is a welcome addition. And we today have some preliminary tests that show just how fast these SSDs can run. In CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4, it achieved over 10 GB/s in both read and write. We know that the E26 controller is capable of 12 GB/s speeds, so more fine-tuning is needed. Being an early sample, we expect final specifications to be better. The system is powered by an engineering sample of a six-core, twelve-threaded Zen 4 CPU running at unknown clocks, codenamed 100-000000593-20_Y. We can expect to see more of this technology once AMD's AM5 platform lands and Phison-powered SSDs hit the shelves in September.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
With AMD's upcoming AM5 platform, support for PCIe 5.0 SSDs is a welcome addition. And we today have some preliminary tests that show just how fast these SSDs can run. In CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4, it achieved over 10 GB/s in both read and write. We know that the E26 controller is capable of 12 GB/s speeds, so more fine-tuning is needed. Being an early sample, we expect final specifications to be better. The system is powered by an engineering sample of a six-core, twelve-threaded Zen 4 CPU running at unknown clocks, codenamed 100-000000593-20_Y. We can expect to see more of this technology once AMD's AM5 platform lands and Phison-powered SSDs hit the shelves in September.
21 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Processor Runs Phison PCIe 5.0 SSD with Micron 232-Layer NAND Flash
will waiting for intel platforms results as well :D
They've been released into the channels already
the shipset fan
The shipset location next to the io
The amounts of led and alike.
what is the pci-e x8 card?
btw, the pci-e x8 mechanical socket
nothing look normal
Once you cross the 1 or 2 GB/s speed mark for sequential speed the diminishing returns hit very hard unless you're running something that really requires extreme sequential speeds.
If you're actually working with 8K RED footage all day every day or something like that, then scrubbing performance might improve slightly because of the extra bandwidth - though even in that best-case scenario for a fully-local, 100% sequential workload, there's a fair bit of CPU/GPU bottlenecking in decoding from each keyframe to the selected point. I've personally witnessed someone at work upgrade from an old Samsung 950 Pro for use exclusively as a scratch disk for editing 4K survey footage. He jumped from ~2.5GB/s to 5.5GB/s and nothing changed. He initially thought it was actually slower but in jumping back to a colleague's PC that still had a 950 Pro, he decided he was just subconsciously disappointed that nothing had measurably changed.
I genuinely can't think of any other scenario currently that actually benefits from faster sequential streaming. DirectStorage isn't here yet, and even then there are other decompression and processing overheads on the GPU that will be a bigger bottleneck to performance than the SSD bandwidth.
I will only buy a PCI-E 5 if it brings tangible random performance increase and or much more affordable 4TB TLC drives, otherwise I'll get a much better value PCI-E 4 drive.
I think we're kind of stuck in this regard, norhing seems to be even in development to compete with now years old and discontinued Intel Optane.
SLC NAND still exists. For example Kioxia's XL-FLASH tho second gen could be MLC there too.
Tho it's also enterprise only with a price tag and poor availability.
But yes aside from SLC i dont see anytthing else in development that could mirror Optane. Not unless someone else will develop Phase Change Memory from ground up. Also it seems no one was willing to buy the Optane business from Intel. Micron said no and exited. Hynix only bought the regular NAND business.