Gigabyte's new PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD: Insane Speeds of up to 5GB/s - Sensationalist Headlines

https://hothardware.com/news/gigabyte-pcie-40-ssd-teases-5gbs-ryzen-3000-zen-2-motherboards I WANT IT.

enjoy unzipping 50gb linux distros in record time and having no other performance benefit.

How are the 4k random read/writes and general IOPS?

Gta5 will have a 25 minute load time instead of a 26 minute one

I find it funny that FiveM boots in mere seconds while singleplayer can take upwards of a minute.

From what I recall the reason for this isn't the game itself, but the fact that the game actually only uses a very small percentage of the drives speed imagine you were playing a game like, I don't know, Doom or Rage 2, which requires a good gpu, but the video game was only using 5% of the gpu and 1gb vram because it basically limited the amount of memory it was allowed to use they could basically fix this with an absurdly fast and easy patch that just... allows the game to use more disk speed, but instead it throttles itself for some absurd reason the reason for the load times is so fucking... just.. what, that I just can't comprehend it. The game is so well optimized yet the load times are just a gigantic mess.

fuck, time to chuck this brand new drive I've got sitting here.

I remember hearing about someone using cheat engines memory modifying features to fix the issue and it loaded fine Every time a modder fixes a nasty issue in like 5 seconds, I do a backflip

Probably just a lazy ass hang-on in the engine. Look at Max Payne 3, where modders found out the loading times are intentionally inflated to pad out for far longer than necessary so you don't skip cutscenes too quickly.

Other than having your entire system run faster because of the instant read/writes for system calls, regedits, etc

Instantaneous access is not a trait unique to 5GB/s riced-out PCIe NVME drives.

video game load times and pc boot times are almost the same. call of duty 4 loads in 54 seconds on a HDD, 9 seconds on a sata SSD, and 6 seconds on a 3gbps nvme drive. totally worth the $100+ price increase for an nvme drive

Windows actually does feel slightly snappier when booted off of my 970 EVO instead of my MX500, but it's not a big deal. It's fine either way.

Instantaneous access isn't a feature on ANY drive, and NVME drives unquestionably do many drive-intensive tasks faster than a sata SSD. You might not need ~this particular~ one but this kind of drive compared to a standard SSD will absolutely net you benfits, including near instantenous boots/hibernation resumes.

A lot of people underplay the importance of appdata, swapfile, and general windows loading libraries to system responsiveness. Having all of those things on a drive that can service requests in far greater parallel is a non-trivial QoL improvement.

The sad part is that we're all here discussing SSDs that are five to ten times faster than the SATA III bus max speeds, yet there are people out there who still boot their OS off of a spinning rust plate.