Does a SSD give gaming performance (fps) boost over HDD?

[slozomby]

the heaven benchmark makes sense to me since it counts min and average fps. and the scene shifts are counted towards fps.

I've moved my steam games back and forth between 512gb evo 850 and my raid 5 (4x4tb wd reds) and other than load time there is no perceivable difference in gaming.

 

[ratirt]

Hmm honestly I have never seen FPS increase when using SSD drive. I got a SSD into my PS3 and haven't noticed any fps boost. Although its a console so I'm stuck at 30 anyway but the load time is way faster.
With that texture streaming. I noticed that GTAV eats a bit of vram and I can't go with all the opts set to full since of my GTCX 780 ti 3gb limitation. crossing that margin of vram game goes nuts and textures are not there sometimes. Wonder if I could go with that texture stream feature and play with all the opts full and still see smooth and all texture in place while playing? Not sure if GTAV has that option in the game.

 

[Komshija]

The only thing I noticed is reduced loading time in games. However, the differences (game loading times) between common 2.5" SSD and fast 3.5" HDD like Toshiba X300 are not so big.

 

[D007]

Load times are improved, not much if any fps gains though. Still it's a big difference, even in the general performance of the pc.. I highly recommend them.

 

[Disparia]

Perhaps we should split off NVMe SSDs into their own camp as the protocol is a good deal more efficient. Now, gains on the desktop are generally not going to amount to much but perhaps we could see something in tailored tests such as the games with streaming textures mentioned earlier.

 

[Gettoxp]

I have resently upgraded from 5600rmp hdd to an ssd and with the hdd I tested 3d mark time spy and got around 20-30 fps with my ssd I get 53-78 fps I must say that the hdd was about to die and was a really slow model from 2002. The physx score is still the same about 12 fps but loading time reduced from half n hour to a couple of seconds. Firestrike had a minimum fps of 18 but that increased as well to 48 fps the average fps here is the same loading time again is much faster. I think that the upgrade to an ssd will only increase fps if textures on the storage must be read or written. Then read and write speeds of the disk will benefit the fps in games.

 

[mad1394]

SSD only good for loading time on game,else is 0

Not really. On my laptop I had stuttering in cs go before I installed it to the ssd. So while it might not increase frame rate it does in my experience make for smoother gameplay in some titles.

 

[cucker tarlson]

https://www.purepc.pl/pamieci_masow..._co_daje_gdzie_ten_wzrost_wydajnosci?page=0,5

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the difference is noticeable mostly in open world games which ten to produce less stutter on SSDs, not in actual fps.

and loading times are greatly reduced

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[Gettoxp]

In my case it's definitely the read and write speed between texture transfer on the disk. Te minimum fps will go up because of the required time to read and write the textures on the disk. This will mean less stutter.

 

[Jetster]

It could also be paging textures if you're low on ram. SSD would be way faster

 

[Punx223]

Has anyone taken a look at this masterpiece? how is it going form a regular TITAN Xp to a TITAN Xp CE (Star wars card) you get massive performance gains?

the standard TITAN Xp and CE version are same memory/speed/GPU and Clock speed.... I must assume at this point that numbers are being made up or something is seriously wrong with Anthony's test bench.

https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/8511/final-fantasy-xv-windows-edition-benchmarks-far/index3.html

This is on top of the fact that he has made public posts bashing PUBG as not able to get playable framerates even on low graphics on his test system and a TTIAN Xp which I personally run and run fin at high settings... dont get me wrong, The game is horribly optimized but not that horrible... I feel like he's too caught up on writing as many click baity articles that the attention to detail is gone...

This is purely my opinion.