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Games and Windows seems to be just as fast with Gen 3 and Gen 4… Sata SSDs seems pretty quick as well. 🤷 ♂️
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And games aren't optimized for this speed. You'll only notice the speed in benchmarks and video editing..
I'm not saying it's a bad drive.
My 2 cents.
LTT Testing what I just said:
https://youtu.be/4DKLA7w9eeA?si=
LTT GEN 4 vs Gen 5
https://youtu.be/jnMMtbVP0ps?si=
Games and Windows seems to be just as fast with Gen 3 and Gen 4… Sata SSDs seems pretty quick as well. 🤷 ♂️
Windows
And games aren't optimized for this speed. You'll only notice the speed in benchmarks and video editing..
I'm not saying it's a bad drive.
My 2 cents.
LTT Testing what I just said:
https://youtu.be/4DKLA7w9eeA?si=
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So many people think that the faster/more powerful the hardware, the more you're going to automatically get out of games. That's incorrect. That's why people will always step in and say that you won't notice a difference, because there literally isn't one; or at most, there's barely a difference.
Think of it like framerates. Plenty of people's PCs can run any game at 120fps or more, but the games actually have to have the option to run them at those framerates. The PS5 is powerful enough to run every PS4 game at 60fps or higher, yet hardly any of them are above 30fps, because they haven't been programmed for that.
It's the same principle with SSDs. No matter the speed, if the game isn't programmed to take advantage of that, you're not going to benefit. Not one single game uses anywhere near the full bandwidth of even the slowest SSD, right now.
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So many people think that the faster/more powerful the hardware, the more you're going to automatically get out of games. That's incorrect. That's why people will always step in and say that you won't notice a difference, because there literally isn't one; or at most, there's barely a difference.
Think of it like framerates. Plenty of people's PCs can run any game at 120fps or more, but the games actually have to have the option to run them at those framerates. The PS5 is powerful enough to run every PS4 game at 60fps or higher, yet hardly any of them are above 30fps, because they haven't been programmed for that.
It's the same principle with SSDs. No matter the speed, if the game isn't programmed to take advantage of that, you're not going to benefit. Not one single game uses anywhere near the full bandwidth of even the slowest SSD, right now.
On consoles? Maybe. But PCs have a lot more flexibility in what can be controlled and even moreso when you include mods.
In terms of load speeds, a higher bandwidth NVME drive won't make a perceivable difference, but it's not because the game isn't "programmed" to take advantage of it. It's simply because there isn't really that much data to transfer at any given moment. That may change when Direct Storage gets more ubiquitous, but that's not the case currently.
As for your FPS anecdote, it's completely inaccurate.
Consoles are targeting 30FPS on quality profiles because they literally can't attain 60FPS and render games at full resolution with the highest possible quality. They added the option for higher framerates at the expense of lower resolution because some people prefer that.
On a PC with the right hardware, you can have your cake and eat it too. And that's regardless of whether the game allows it, because you have the option of turning off VSync or a mod will be available to uncap the FPS.
By the same token, most games on PC will render at higher resolution and quality than the developers intended, as this is a function of the graphics card and drivers themselves.
No developer has to step in and allow more antialiasing or 8K screen resolution — the card will just do it.