I have a Unify 690 series motherboard that only does gen 4… i have a 4tb nvme that is around 7200 mbps… 12900kf cpu etc
I was considering swapping out and going with the msi tomahawk 790 that has one slot that is gen 5 (there dont seem to be gen5 adapters and they would steal lanes from the video card).
The new gen5 4tb is 12,400 mbps.
Has anyone yet made this swap and can comment on load time speed increases or no change?
I cant recall what it was when i went from gen3 to gen4. edit: i think it was no change
Direct storage would change this i think, but isnt supported, yet
Currently my full enabled load time initially is about 4min10sec (about 900gb of official + community data combined)
I have yet to see a compelling comparison that shows the speed upgrade has any meaningful impact to real-world performance.
To be honest, last I looked, even SATA3 SSD’s were still much much closer to NVMe’s than HDD’s, to a point where I don’t really think I’d notice that much.
I think, as you say, direct storage might be the time when higher NVMe speeds start to matter for some.
I have a good comparison between Ryzen Zen 1 and Ryzen Zen 3 NVMe.
The Ryzen Zen 1 is capable of 500-900mb/sec data transfer on NVMe drives, with this speed it takes 3-7 seconds to load an airplane into the hangar (depending on the airplane, the Fenix for example takes long, some default Cessna is there very quick.)
The sim has a significant stutter when being in the final approach and sometimes hangs for several seconds until the airport is loaded in.
It does not run very fluent when doing quick camera turns on big airports.
The initial load time is brutal and takes up to five minutes.
The Ryzen Zen 3 which had the full 5000mb/sec read speed on the Corsair Force MP600 NVMe was able to load every aircraft in one second. One or maximum two seconds depending on the aircraft.
The sim had no stuttering whatsoever.
Camera turns where absolute fluent even on bigger airports.
The initial load time is brutal and takes up to five minutes.
And if you buy a Gen5 NVMe which has how many, I think 10 gigabyte per second, sometimes even 13 or 20… well you could imagine how fast it will be.
While the first loading sequence will still take several minutes.
