GAME LOADING TIMES – Gen 4 vs Gen 3 NVME SSD
This was the most requested thing in the comments of the review for this rather shiny Aorus Gen 4 NVME SSD. So, now I’ve finally got it back in for testing, I thought this should be first on the list! Now, I wasn’t too sure what games I should test, so I asked you on twitter and picked three options that I actually own, and knew how to test.
Those were PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege and Battlefield V. To make the test repeatable, in PUBG I loaded the training map, and only started counting once the game had actually started loading – not matchmaking. Siege was loading terrorist hunt, then not selecting a spawn location or operator and just subtracting the full 30 seconds the game gives you there, and Battlefield was loading the war story Tirailleur. All tests were repeated 3 times to make sure there wasn’t any issues.
So, what’s the results? Well, lets start with PUBG. It took between an average of 9.87 seconds for the Gen3 SSD to load the map, with the Gen4 being a hair faster at 9.56 seconds. Barely anything in it. Same goes for Siege, an average of 12.61 for Gen3, 12.57 for Gen4. And same for Battlefield too, with a slightly bigger margin but only just. 18.14 for Gen3 and about half a second quicker on the Gen4 with 17.52. Still, not exactly noticeable.
Ok, so now you know the results, I want to explain why they aren’t really different. Games don’t tend to max out SSDs when loading, I’ve got a WD Black SN700 drive in my main PC, which is also running windows on that drive, I launched PUBG then loaded the training map, and i think the highest utilisation I saw was like 40%. It peaked for a brief second at around 250MB/s reads, but since even a standard SATA SSD can do that, it really doesn’t benefit having even NVME, let alone Gen 4.
Like I mentioned in the review, most people won’t see a benefit from these drives for a while yet. Is it great to have them? Definitely. Is it great to hear that this isn’t even as fast as they can go? 100%. But can you make use of this right now? As a gamer, no, not really. For a workstation, possibly, or even as a write-cache in a server, probably, but not for game loading times.
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