Intel planned to conduct a series of live technology demonstrations, complementing the CES keynote was hosted by CEO Gregory Bryant. COVID mutations have led to cancellations of physical presence and it seems that Intel (and others) will only hold product presentations virtually. 

One of the planned demonstrations was that of the PCIe 5 SSDIt didn't happen at CES, but Intel's Chief Performance Officer Ryan Shrout told us the results in Twitter:

Intel SSD PCIe 5 – The demonstration is about a Direct comparison between PCIe 4.0 and the next generation of the interface, 5.0.

Specifically, a WD Black PCIe 4.0 (which we analyzed here) and a Samsung PCIe 5.0 that for the occasion was the PM1743 business model since there are no consumer versions for sale at the moment.

The test was performed on an Alder Lake platform with a Core i9-12900K processor and the results were as expected.

If the WD 4.0 (one of the best in its segment) offers a sequential read performance of 7 GB/s, the Samsung unit connected to PCIe 5.0 exceeded 13 Gbytes per second, almost double.

To make the test even more interesting, Shrout installed two Samsung SSDs in RAID to achieve 28 GB/s, a stratospheric brand for the consumer market.

However, due to the limited number of PCIe 5.0 lanes on the Alder Lake board, he had to remove the dedicated graphics so that the solid-state drives could achieve maximum performance.

It's just a demonstration, but it shows what's to come once manufacturers market PCIe 5.0 SSDs, which Intel already supports in Alder Lake and which AMD will also do with the new Ryzen.

It is clear that SSDs They have broken the traditional bottleneck of hard drives and opened a new scenario for internal storage.

We especially recommend them for any PC upgrade..

Even if it is a SATA model, you will notice it a lot.

Fountain: MC