Review Corsair MP700 Elite SSD review: The retail, budget PCIe 5.0 SSD of choice is officially here

[Admin]

The Corsair MP700 Elite is one of the first retail SSDs built using Phison's E31T, the first real PCIe 5.0 controller that offers great performance with good power efficiency, all without requiring a heatsink.

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[HideOut]

all th is talk about power effeciency, and no graphs or other data to suppport it?

 

[phxrider]

What am I missing? From what I see, it's barely faster than the PCIe 4 drives, and more expensive. Actually, it's even more expensive than the higher end, better performing Teamgroup 540.

 

[Mama Changa]

What am I missing? From what I see, it's barely faster than the PCIe 4 drives, and more expensive. Actually, it's even more expensive than the higher end, better performing Teamgroup 540.

Well, the author did say prices were way too high.

I'd get the T500 ahead of this.

 

[Maxxify]

all th is talk about power effeciency, and no graphs or other data to suppport it?

682.4 MB/s per watt. This is over 50% more efficient than the 2TB Gold P31, if that puts things into perspective.

 

[Stomx]

What am I missing? From what I see, it's barely faster than the PCIe 4 drives, and more expensive. Actually, it's even more expensive than the higher end, better performing Teamgroup 540.

When older gen 4.0 drives deliver 7+ GB/s this one with 8.5 does not look particularly attractive

 

[bit_user]

682.4 MB/s per watt. This is over 50% more efficient than the 2TB Gold P31, if that puts things into perspective.

I'd like to know how well it does when limited to PCIe 4.0 or 3.0 speeds. There are plenty of systems out there that only support up to PCIe 3.0 and the P31 Gold is a PCIe 3.0 drive.

 

[bit_user]

When older gen 4.0 drives deliver 7+ GB/s this one with 8.5 does not look particularly attractive

What I find more alarming is the QD1 read performance vs. block size:

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The graph doesn't say, but I'm assuming this is random reads. It falls way behind after 4k and doesn't really catch up until 1M.

I'd also like to see how random read performance scales vs. queue depth at 4k, 64k, and 1M sizes. If we had that, we wouldn't need the bar charts showing the same data points.

I think less emphasis could be placed on write benchmarking. Obviously, there needs to be some, but why do I care about peak sequential write at QD8? Who would do that? Why? And do you not see that graph is almost exactly the same as the peak sequential write at QD1?

@JarredWaltonGPU

 

[Maxxify]

I'd like to know how well it does when limited to PCIe 4.0 or 3.0 speeds. There are plenty of systems out there that only support up to PCIe 3.0 and the P31 Gold is a PCIe 3.0 drive.

Should be even more efficient. Would be cool to see it tested at lower PCIe speeds.

 

[bit_user]

Should be even more efficient. Would be cool to see it tested at lower PCIe speeds.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it were more efficient, but I really don't know how much of its efficiency advantage comes from higher speeds vs. lower power. That's why I'm wondering.

FWIW, I find bandwidth per Watt a slightly weird metric, when buying a drive for personal use. I care about performance and power. However, depending on what I'm doing, I'll tend to prioritize one above the other. If it's for a gaming desktop, I'd care about performance first and I'd probably only use power as a tie-breaker. For something like a laptop, I'd prioritize power but probably not to extent that I'd accept a major performance tradeoff.

You could have two drives with virtually identical perf/W, but very different performance and power levels. I think the metric is basically useless, outside of datacenter applications. Even then, what you'd probably rather see is the number of Joules required to complete a defined workload.

 

[snapdragon-x]

Where is the Addlink G55 review? So, it's essentially the same product? It's 25% less expensive than the Corsair one where I live.