Samsung 980 PRO M.2 gets PCIe Gen4 and performance up to 6,500 MB/s

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    So ~3500MB/s is the limit of PCIe 3.0?
     
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    PCIe 3 is around 1000MBs (it's slightly less but can't remember exactly) per lane. M.2 uses 4 lanes. But yeah, with overhead 3500 MB/s is around the max it would go to.
     
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    I wonder if they are planning an EVO model eventually. The EVO prices are much more attractive than the Pro model prices.
     

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    7W of power usage? That's on level of some 3,5" hdds.
     
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    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Yeah, good thing it's almost 45 times faster ;) Btw it's peak read/write usage and if you do that 24/7/365 that's like 12 bucks on your yearly energy bill.
     
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    The Samsung 970 Evo in my MSI Tian laptop (PCIE 3.0) hits 3,500 and sometimes just a hair over that. This new one must be using a new controller too, because the PCIE 4.0 M.2 that I have (Sabrent Rocket) supposedly sits somewhere between (about 5,000). I haven't tested that yet as my next PC build is not complete. That one is Ryzen 9 3950x on an X570 motherboard with PCIE 4.
     
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    Hopefully they built a new controller to improve random IO as well which nobody so far has improved upon with PCIe 4 drives.
     
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    Give me 50% improvement on random io and just 2gb read writes in seq and they will have my money!
     
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    got a MP600 in pcie 4.0 what's the point of those fake benchmarks ? where do you ever get 4000+ other than in benchmarking tools ?
    I've got one it copies files at like 1,6Gbyte/s guru3d review managed 2,17Gb but still far away from those totally fake numbers
    if you are on the market for a M.2 please don't use those numbers for your purchase decision they are meaningless

    edit just did a few copy tests (I only have one 4.0, all drives are M.2 Nvme on MSI Creator TRX40) :
    Corsair MP600 2TB -> Samsung 970evoplus 2TB : 1,6Gbyte/s
    Corsair MP600 2TB -> Samsung 970pro 1TB : 2,27Gbyte/s
    Samsung 970evoplus 2TB -> Corsair MP600 2TB : 1,85Gbyte/s
    Samsung 970pro 1TB -> Corsair MP600 2TB : 1,79Gbyte/s
    anyway as you can see 3000-4000 numbers are not only meaningless but in the end pcie 3.0 work as well if not better, the corsair gave me 4980/4273 "supposedly" in crystaldiskmark
     
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    it's like the 300km/H gauge on sport's car... you may go fast but you never reach it...
     
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    adding something if someone had a doubt, my M.2 are well cooled by the motherboard heatsinks and case fans
    M.2 #1 42 °C (MP600)
    M.2 #2 37 °C (970evoplus)
    M.2 #3 42 °C (970pro)
     
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    This is the PCIe 4.0 SSD I have been waiting for. One of them anyways.
     
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    So that makes the 970 Pro the final MLC consumer product from Samsung?
     
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    i have achieved evo+ to evo+ copy around 2,2GB/s sustained on z390 platform, with you are little slower...
     

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    980 EVO (TLC) for the masses, bring it Samsung !
     
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    I almost got a 970 Pro 512GB to replace my 950 Pro 512GB as my main drive.. Guess I'll wait a bit. Hoping the 512GB version is not too castrated compared to the 1TB version. And yeah hoping they improved random IO mostly.
     
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    I am going to rock my Samsung 960 EVO 1TB for a while longer, When the next gen AMD CPUs arrive I will probably upgrade my whole system including whatever drive out there offers best performance, price and most importantly durability of Age + writes. (I read a few articles some years ago that NAND tends to die more to age, a worryingly small age at that, than actual writes. Is this still so?)

    Just for reference my current drive copying a 23GB mkv file from my RAM drive:

    1st 30% at about 1.8GB/s
    Remaining % slowed to about 1.1GB/s

    Visa versa (Read from 960 write to RAM drive):

    After V.small initial ramp up was steady at 1.42GB/s


    Yeah, that is certainly no 3.2GB/s read it is meant to be capable of, but then this is compressed data I guess (though I thought this drive was pretty good at handling this and applies more to writes anyway)
     
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    Something must be wrong with your system, for example being PCI-e bandwidth chocked, because that's not how a 960 EVO behaves when it actually has all the 4 PCI-e lines available.
    I'm actually copying at 3.4 GB/s to a RAMDrive complete file beginning to end.

    And it writes at nearly 3 GB/s before the drop, which is indeed at around 0.9 in my case (using a 512 GB drive, not a 1TB one)

    I do have an AMD system with the 4 lanes straight to the CPU.
     
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    Yup, something not right there. I can remember what it tested at when I 1st got it.

    Tested with CrystaDiskMark 5.2.2 when I 1st got it:

    Read 3325MB/s / Write 1956MB/s

    Tested CrystaDiskMark 5.2.2 just now:

    Read 3047MB/s / Write 1807MB/s

    Tried a bunch of large files with similar results. Will try re-installing the Samsung NVMe driver tomorrow and see if that helps.
    of course the drive is fuller now, 368GB free, but I would not expect that to have a significant effect.

    EDIT:
    RAMDrive with CrystaDiskMark 5.2.2 gets:

    Read 8195MB/s / Write 8033MB/s (1 CPU core, 2700X, maxed out must be a limitation of CrystaDiskMark 5.2.2 not expecting such fast drives)
     
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