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Because the games don't take advantage of the higher bandwidth. In fact, they probably don't even take advantage of the SSD, because games are still built so th
by vvillena 5y ago
Because the games don't take advantage of the higher bandwidth. In fact, they probably don't even take advantage of the SSD, because games are still built so that they work when installed on spinning drives. The advantage of SSDs is the random access time, but if you are streaming continuous data, it's only about triple the speed of an HDD.
A NVME PCIe 4.0 SSD can be up to 15 times faster than a SATA SSD. The difference is much much bigger.
- jmkni 5y agoGet off my lawn ;)
- omegalulw 5y agoYour argument doesn't make sense, a triple speedup is still a LOT and should easily be noticeable.
- vvillena 5y agoIt is noticeable, but that's not the point. A SSD-only engine can avoid some asset duplication and achieve an effective 4x speedup over a HDD equivalent, but that is still slow in the grand scheme of things: you could have a bigger or a more detailed environment, but that's about it. A PCI 4 NVME coupled with the latest compression tech means you can renew all the data in RAM in less than 2 seconds. That's the big deal.