Intel and Samsung have achieved speeds of over 13 Gb / s with a PCIe 5.0 SSD

This demonstration was to take place at CES 2022, but the pandemic decided otherwise. Ryan Shrout, senior technical director of customer marketing for Intel, and former performance mister of the Santa Clara giant, has therefore decided to show on Twitter what happens when you combine a state-of-the-art PC, equipped with a twelfth generation Core i9. , with a PCIe 5.0 SSD.

He used Samsung’s PM1743 SSD. This company SSD has a specific connector and it was therefore necessary to go through an adapter to connect it to the PCIe 5.0 port on the PC motherboard. It benefits from a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, and especially the latest Core i9-12900K processor, from Intel. In short, it is a thunderbolt of war!

With the IOmeter test, Ryan Shrout achieves a record reading speed of 13,788MB / s (13.78Gb / s)!
In comparison, the PC’s internal PCIe 4.0 SSD, the model of which is not specified, rises to “only” 6,901 MB / s (6.9 GB / s). The PCIe Gen4 SSD of Sony’s PlayStation 5, for its part, reaches 5.5 Gb / s. For its part, Seagate offers players the SSD Gen4 FireCuda 530, capable of going up to 7.3 Gb / s in read mode.

And if that’s not enough, Ryan Shrout even managed to exceed 28Gb / s by simultaneously using two PM1743 SSDs.

While Intel’s demo uses a hardware-optimized machine, it does give an idea of ​​the performance of fifth-generation PCIe SSDs. However, we will have to be patient because, for the moment, only companies can benefit from it.

Source : The verge