Team Group T-Force G70 Pro 2 TB

[W1zzard]

The Team Group T-Force G70 Pro SSD uses the InnoGrit IG5236 controller paired with 128-layer TLC NAND from YMTC. Unlike most other value drives, the G70 Pro includes 2 GB of physical DRAM cache. Also included is an aluminum heatsink, but even that is having a hard time avoiding throttling when heavily loaded.

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[Dr. Dro]

This looks like a pretty solid drive! Surprised at the performance of the YMTC NAND chips. Pricing is fair, too. I like it. Shame about it being so hot, though. But it'll work if the machine has good airflow.

 

[Chaitanya]

Surprised to see drive throttle even when it comes with a decent heatsink(compared to solid chunks of aluminium or thin sheets of copper on competiting drives) with PCI-e 4.0 drive which should have matured by now.

 

[dirtyferret]

@W1zzard
Maybe I'm in the minority for this request as I'm sure people will let me know but any chance to do a summary graph for all the game level loading times like you you do the relative performance graph? Yes I understand it's more work for you but you also do have one of the more robust game loading time test which is great but a summary would also be great in my personal opinion.

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard
Maybe I'm in the minority for this request as I'm sure people will let me know but any chance to do a summary graph for all the game level loading times like you you do the relative performance graph? Yes I understand it's more work for you but you also do have one of the more robust game loading time test which is great but a summary would also be great in my personal opinion.

That's a great idea .. put it at the start of the Loading Times page? and show the individual results afterward?

 

[Dr. Dro]

Surprised to see drive throttle even when it comes with a decent heatsink(compared to solid chunks of aluminium or thin sheets of copper on competiting drives) with PCI-e 4.0 drive which should have matured by now.

This is using a ~3.5 year old Innogrit IG5236 controller that has been around since the early days of PCIe 4.0, it's a decent performer but it's built on an older 12 nm node and as you can see, this is one of the most power hungry drives in the charts. I'm not sure as per the electrical characteristics of the YMTC NAND used here, although it seems this drive is using earlier generation Xtacking 2 128-layer chips.

 

[dirtyferret]

That's a great idea .. put it at the start of the Loading Times page? and show the individual results afterward?

sounds like a plan!

 

[W1zzard]

sounds like a plan!

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[Raptor_i]

It will be nice if we can see the Gen number in comparison table especially with more Gen5 being added in the future, maybe a small symbol

at the end of each line if you don't want the table to be cluttered.