Is There A FPS Difrence Between SSD and Hard drive

[Deleted member 1680777]

Is There A FPS Difrence Between SSD and Hard drive?

 

[IInuyasha74]

Realistically no. In the case that a game is loading information from the storage medium at the start of a level, the second or two of low FPS while data is loaded will be shorter. Other than that there isn't anything to see FPS wise. Having an SSD won't increase your max FPS or change your average really. It has potential to raise your minimum if that minimum occurred at a point where data was loaded, but that is a split second instance typically even with HDDs.

 

[skit75]

The short answer is no. No FPS advantage.

The hazier answer is if you are playing a game on a SSD and have limited RAM forcing the game to use the operating system's pagefile/swapfile(the spare area of the HDD or SSD that RAM uses in emergencies) then yes. The SSD will respond quicker than a HDD from the pagefile. If your gaming PC has at least 6GB or 8GB of RAM, there really is no FPS difference you would ever see.

 

[IInuyasha74]

The short answer is no. No advantage.

The hazier answer is if you are playing a game on a SSD and have limited RAM forcing the game of use the operating system's pagefile/swapfile(the spare area of the HDD or SSD that RAM uses in emergencies) then yes. The SSD will respond quicker than a HDD from the pagefile. If your gaming PC has at least 6GB or 8GB of RAM, there really is no FPS difference you would ever see.

This is also a good point.

 

[Deleted member 1680777]

Realistically no. In the case that a game is loading information from the storage medium at the start of a level, the second or two of low FPS while data is loaded will be shorter. Other than that there isn't anything to see FPS wise. Having an SSD won't increase your max FPS or change your average really. It has potential to raise your minimum if that minimum occurred at a point where data was loaded, but that is a split second instance typically even with HDDs.

Thanks

 

[Deleted member 1680777]

The short answer is no. No FPS advantage.

The hazier answer is if you are playing a game on a SSD and have limited RAM forcing the game to use the operating system's pagefile/swapfile(the spare area of the HDD or SSD that RAM uses in emergencies) then yes. The SSD will respond quicker than a HDD from the pagefile. If your gaming PC has at least 6GB or 8GB of RAM, there really is no FPS difference you would ever see.

Thanks