[SOLVED] Samsung 970 EVO PLus NVMe M.2(V-NAND SSD) 500GB poor performance in games compared to older SSD

[rigger922]

Hello, guys and girls so i recently bought a 970 evo plus m.2 installed it today, set everything up all good to go.Moved over a couple of games from my older SSD(Samsung 840 EVO 256gb but i am getting poor performance on my new drive compared to my old one now i have done some research into this and am a little stumped on what to do as nothing i have tryed has fixed this. One thing that was mentioned was setting my bios to UEFI only ratehr then UEFI+Legacy but this requires me to reinstall windows 10 so i wanted to do this as a last resort,Please can you guys help. Also the guys on the other forum and such mentioned looking at Samsung magician for interface and mine says PCIe Gen 2 x 4.

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

What m2 slot are you using?

 

[rigger922]

2_2 slot

 

[USAFRet]

What performance difference are you seeing?
FPS has little or nothing to do with the drive.
Level load times has only a little to do with the drive.

 

[rigger922]

Well wildlands for example has gone from 60-65 fps to skipping between 35-50

 

[USAFRet]

Well wildlands for example has gone from 60-65 fps to skipping between 35-50

That has nothing to do with the physical drive.

 

[rigger922]

Well I can't be nothing else since everything else is up to date and nothing else has changed other then wilands has. Moved from my old ssd to. My new one and I've lost 10-20fps

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

You need to put the m2 in slot one it is pcie 3.0 x4. The slot you have it in is pcie 2.0 x4. The performance is cut in half at pcie 2.0 x4. Remember a ssd drive has no bearing on fps directly, but maybe the motherboard will perform better with the m2 in the first slot and you may see the change back in fps that way. Either way you will not see more fps.

 

[rigger922]

Well i moved the m.2 in to the other slot and it made no difference, However i found out that it was Wildlands causing the issue because other games i tryed had the or slightly better performace. I found this out when i moved wildlands back my older ssd and it was performing the same thnaks for the help guys.

 

[varun43in]

Hi guys, I just installed the 2 TB version in my Dell G3 3950 and i'm getting really bad 4K performance.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

I'm on Windows 10, version 1903
Using the Samsung NVMe driver (same performance on the windows driver), it's on the latest firmware

 

[USAFRet]

Hi guys, I just installed the 2 TB version in my Dell G3 3950 and i'm getting really bad 4K performance.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

I'm on Windows 10, version 1903
Using the Samsung NVMe driver (same performance on the windows driver), it's on the latest firmware

Please start a new thread for your particular situation.

 

[Joe02a]

Talking about X570 TUF with a brand new build using 970 EVO Plus as well. My Speeds aren't even as good the previous person's. It's not letting me post a pic. SEC Read 3275 Sec Write 2638 Random IOPS 280761/348632.
Advertised Speeds are 3,500MB/s Seq. Read 3,200MB/s Seq. Write. That's why I bought it over the regular evo