So about 6 months ago, I said that PS5 beating SSDs would come out on PC around the time consoles launch if not before. And now, we have 3 companies that have released their next generation SSDs. Samsung 980 Pro, Western Digital SN850 and Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus which all promise to deliver 7GB/s reads. And the reviews are quite interesting:
https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/9698/sabrent-rocket-4-plus-1tb-2-nvme-ssd/index.html
From what I can tell, they are all over the place depending on the benchmark. But on average, the pattern seems to be:
Samsung 980 Pro seems to have the best reads and for large file transfers, the best writes. But otherwise, notably slower writes than both the SN850 and Rocket 4 Plus
Western Digital SN850 seems to at times be as good as 980 pro in terms of reads and at times, as good as Rocket 4 Plus in terms of writes.
Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus seems to have the best writes but slower reads than 980 Pro and SN850
In the only gaming test they did, the SN850 > 980 Pro > Rocket 4 Plus but it's not gonna mean much as RTX IO/Direct Storage isn't out yet.
So overall, the best one seems to be SN850 as the best all around. 980 Pro seems to have the best reads more consistently so it could do better in gaming in theory and Rocket 4 Plus seems to have the best writes more consistently as long as you don't run out of Dram cache.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
