Thursday, August 18th 2022
Corsair Teases the Performance of its Upcoming MP700 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD
Corsair decided it was time to start teasing its upcoming MP700 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD, although the company didn't bother providing any images of the drive itself, or any specifications in the teaser. However, Corsair did provide some sequential performance figures, which end up being impressive and disappointing at the same time. The MP700 is said to offer sequential read speeds of up to 10 GB/s or 10,000 MB/s if you prefer and sequential write speeds of 9.5 GB/s. These are obviously very fast speeds, but quite far from what the PCIe 5.0 can deliver and the performance figures are only a bit faster than the best PCIe 4.0 drives. It's likely that we'll see better performance from second generation controllers, just as we did with PCIe 4.0 SSDs, as this gives both the SSD controller makers and the SSD makers a chance to refresh their products a year or two down the line.
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22 Comments on Corsair Teases the Performance of its Upcoming MP700 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD
5.0x4 in full speed should be 13GB/s +
As for game loading times, I await the reviews. Not holding my breath though if results from PCIe 4.0 are anything to go by.
Yes the sequential results are impressive. But for a consumer grade SSD used in desktop/laptop, that's pretty much useless.
It's essentially limited by NAND access time, good sata ssd still perform really well in those test
But yeah this drive will change nothing for the 99%+ of people that are not reading/writing huge sequential files.
DirectStorage should be able to improve game loading performance and then this drive would have a slight advantage vs pcie 4.0
But as far as I know there's not been any direct storage title yet :/
The limited to 10k speeds might be a limitation of old pcie4, not ready for PrimeTime pcie5 controllers,
It was the same with Gen 4 PCIe SSD on launch they were only doing 5GB/s now they do 7+
The same will happen with these so you will have to skip the first gen models and probably wait a year.
The controller is Silicon Motion based or a new Phison upper-mainstream Gen5 solution or just E5026-E26 combined with QLC?
(Yes yes some of you have faster - most of the world doesn't, it's only metro areas on some states in some countries)
I've got my shiny Gen 4 drive, and it gets half the speed copying to my Gen 3, and it just makes sad faces copying to USB or LAN
Apart from solid reads, usually the random results are what matter the most and they're well under SATAs speed limits
Pretty sure people on the premium SLC SATA drives are having a good time with them still