It seems that the great novelty of the next generation of consoles is the SSD, which has been in PC for quite a few years. Sony sells the PlayStation 5 as the best console made with an SSD that has magical capabilities. Offering unrivaled console performance, this magical SSD has been easily beaten by the Samsung 980 Pro, which will have excellent performance.
It is not the first time we have talked about the Samsung 980 Pro, which was leaked in early summer. These drives are based on the PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.3c interface and of course, it comes in an M.2 format. For these units a Samsung Elpis controller and Samsung V-NAND MLC 3-bit chips have been integrated.
[amazon box=»» title=»» star_rating=»none» template=»table»]Detailed specifications of the Samsung 980 Pro unit
Samsung's new SSD will arrive in capacities of 250GB, 500GB and 1TB, within the norm in the market. As we said, it comes in M.2 format and without a heatsink, so we will need a heatsink for this unit. It is well known that M.2 drives have temperature problems and require passive dissipation systems.
Samsung has integrated the Samsung Elpis controller that offers NVMe 1.3c support and is compatible with PCIe 4.0 x4. The unit is based on the new 3-bit Samsung V-NAND MLC chips. As cache memory we will have 1GB SDRAM LPDDR4.
Let's go to performance. The Samsung 980 Pro has a read speed of up to 7000MB / s and a write speed of 5000MB / s. Something very interesting is that 4K random read and write offers us 1.000.000 IOPS (in both cases). The unit has an average consumption of 6.2W and a maximum consumption of 8.9W. In addition, this unit has a useful life of 1.5 million hours before presenting problems.
It also stands out that the controller has a nickel coating to improve its cooling. The chips, on the other hand, do not have any heat dissipation system, but most motherboards already integrate a passive heatsink for M.2 drives.
[irp]Source: wccftech
