Corsair Teases the Performance of its Upcoming MP700 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD

[TheLostSwede]

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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[Crackong]

Skippable

5.0x4 in full speed should be 13GB/s +

 

[AlwaysHope]

Oh goody, be able to load the OS quicker than before...
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.

 

[Metroid]

Where is the 4k test? oh dont tell me is around 60, it has been like that ever since ssd's were released, pitiful.

 

[Niceumemu]

Skippable

5.0x4 in full speed should be 13GB/s +

My guess is they'll release pro and xt or whatever other versions that can hit closer to those speeds a few months or a year down the line and make this the budget offering once those release

 

[Valantar]

Yes, I too am very attracted to theoretical numbers that have no relevance for my real-world use cases. I'll take three, thanks.

 

[Parn]

Where is the 4k/QD1 result?

Yes the sequential results are impressive. But for a consumer grade SSD used in desktop/laptop, that's pretty much useless.

 

[Od1sseas]

We need random performance. Random is x10 more important

 

[Nioktefe]

Where is the 4k/QD1 result?

Yes the sequential results are impressive. But for a consumer grade SSD used in desktop/laptop, that's pretty much useless.

I don't expect 4k/qd1 to be really better than before
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 :/

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

to start teasing

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.

All this screams leak, but coming directly from corsair, its a just teaser.

The limited to 10k speeds might be a limitation of old pcie4, not ready for PrimeTime pcie5 controllers,

 

[dirtyferret]

My synthetic benchmarks can beat your synthetic benchmarks!!!

 

[THU31]

Random reads/writes still as bad as Gen 3?

 

[Zareek]

Am I the only one thinking big woop! I mean, maybe DirectStorage will change that. I passed on Gen4 SSDs because 1 second faster load times and half a second faster boot times aren't worth the additional cost. I really only started buying NVMe drives because why invest more in outdated technology. It's good to see the technology is still progressing but like everyone else is saying latency and randoms are far more important for most of us.

 

[Makaveli]

Skippable

5.0x4 in full speed should be 13GB/s +

Its a first gen product.

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.

 

[ModEl4]

How they can build excitement teasing 10GB/s when the competition teasing 12GB/s. (For the people that care for sequential performance)
The controller is Silicon Motion based or a new Phison upper-mainstream Gen5 solution or just E5026-E26 combined with QLC?

 

[Minus Infinity]

We need random performance. Random is x10 more important

+1000

 

[Kapone33]

The question at hand is will one PCIe 5.0 drive cost as much as 2 4.0 drives of the same capacity? As 2 4.0 cards in RAID 0 will give you very similar performance.

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

Phison and partners are tweaking random performance now but you will get to see where we are very soon.

 

[AM4isGOD]

If you have good, say SN850 black SSDs why bother changing till it is necessary.

 

[Mussels]

10GB/s makes me laugh when i think that most homes are still struggling to get 1Gb/s LAN, and very very few people even have 100Mb/s internet.
(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

 

[AM4isGOD]

Gen 4 is fine as a storage device and plenty fast enough. Copying to other devices will always be a shit show.

 

[chrcoluk]

Gen 4 is fine as a storage device and plenty fast enough. Copying to other devices will always be a shit show.

Gen 3 is been really honest, and if you not video editing, SATA is.

 

[Mussels]

Even SATA isn't the limit, the tech behind the flash memory usually is.

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