Out of all the games tested, only two showed measurable performance differences between SATA and PCIe SSDs: Forspoken and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
Across all other titles, PCIe SSDs provided no meaningful performance advantage, and there were no observable differences between PCIe generations. In the vast majority of games tested, a SATA SSD delivers comparable performance.
My cheap ass can’t tell the difference either
I can tell the difference between nvme and sata when booting and loading applications. It’s so small that I’m happy to remain a cheap ass. I also went to college in the “turn on your computer, then go make breakfast” days, so I guess in more tolerant of it.
The problem is that SATA SSDs, at least in Europe, are rarily meaningfully cheaper than some cost effective PCIe3.0 or PCIe4.0 SSD. Well at least it was like that before the AI inflation.
Yes, but an SSD you already own is cheaper than buying a new one. So it’s interesting to see how much improvement an NVMe SSD would make if someone were to upgrade from a SATA one.
That is another question, at the current crazy prices, even for SATA SSDs I would not upgrade in any case unless I realky need additional capacity.
Is the answer a secret or are you not seeking to inform but just have me click the link?
The purpose of a Lemmy - like Reddit - is to share a link, people read the link, and then they discuss the link in the comments. It’s up to you if you want to just get the gist from the comments, but you don’t need to do it in such an entitled and obnoxious way by leaving a comment to OP like this. OP is just sharing an interesting article.
Top reasons I love PCIe NVMe storage:
- no cables
- virtually no additional physical space taken
Sure thing, if I need to add/replace/remove one it is a bigger hassle and probably involves removing the GPU as well, but it is rare for me to need to do that, so I prefer the simplicity of doing away with SATA.
Why would any of this matter at the moment? We use the SSDs we already have or can somehow afford. Cost is pretty much the only factor that matters. Virtually nobody had the money to care about trivial things.
Next they’ll test the PSU’s to see if the the ‘platinum’ ones improve frame rate. Then they’ll test cases with and without windows.
Imagine having a bunch of SSDs at the same place. That has to be worth millions these days 🙃
Unironically, that’s the future scam Altman & friends desire
Yeah SATA SSDs are still fine for gaming, nvme just slightly improve load times
Would using monster audio cables make my frame rate go brr?
Yea but what about real world impact of 27 pr0n torrentz on AAA gaming load times.
Cry in the middle of some old scrapped HDD…
So, game optimization makes all the differnce and lazy coding sells more drives. Thats how I read it at least. These performance comparisons could really use a unified definition of JND (just noticable difference).
How did you get the opposite conclusion? The only 2 games that benefited from the new(er) technology are the ones that implemented it
