[SOLVED] Is it worth it to upgrade to gen 4 ssd from gen 3?

[Zizo007]

Hello

I saw a good deal on a Corsair m600 xt pro 2tb gen 4 ssd 7100mbps. I currently have a Samsung 970 evo plus 1tb 3500mbps gen 3 ssd, is it worth it to upgrade if i only use my pc for gaming? My motherboard is an X570 and cpu is 3700x so my system supports gen 4 ssds.

 

[Lafong]

Hello

I saw a good deal on a Corsair m600 xt pro 2tb gen 4 ssd 7100mbps. I currently have a Samsung 970 evo plus 1tb 3500mbps gen 3 ssd, is it worth it to upgrade if i only use my pc for gaming? My motherboard is an X570 and cpu is 3700x so my system supports gen 4 ssds.

"worth it"??

It certainly is if you suffer from benchmark envy or the fear of missing out.

 

[USAFRet]

Is it worth it to upgrade to gen 4 ssd from gen 3?

No.

What do you use this system for?

 

[Zizo007]

No.

What do you use this system for?

Gaming only

 

[USAFRet]

Gaming only

Not even a little bit.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoRKQy-UO4

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ9LyNXpsOo

 

[Zizo007]

Not even a little bit.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoRKQy-UO4

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ9LyNXpsOo

Thanks for the videos. I will save the money to upgrade my GPU.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Let's throw in some context, what's the primary thing storage affects? Loading times. And loading is generally thought of getting stuff from storage onto RAM.

So let's take an example. I loaded up Cyberpunk 2077 and it's floating around 4GB of RAM being used. If this was from a PCIe 3.0 SSD, it'd take about 1 second to load this. If this were a PCIe 4.0 SSD, 0.5 seconds. Is that half second really going to matter in the scheme of things? To make things worse, a lot of that RAM usage isn't actually loaded from storage, it's the game's data that it generated for various things like random NPCs or whatnot. So the data that's loaded for Cyberpunk 2077 is much less, reducing the loading time even more.

And then, the kicker: your CPU is still responsible for "loading", because it still has to initialize the game, create all those data objects, among other things. Storage activity doesn't account for even most of the time loading is going on. If we went with Cyberpunk again, it took about 4-5 seconds to load. At most only a second of that would've been from storage if everything in RAM was from it (which it isn't). So in reality, almost all of the time spent loading was from the CPU getting the game up and running.

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks for the videos. I will save the money to upgrade my GPU.

When we moved from HDD to SSD, that was a huge jump.
Between different flavors of solid state? Not so much.