NVME SSD vs SATA SSD vs HDD

[liberator65853]

With an RX6650xt 8gb, Ryzen 5 7600, and 32gb of RAM at 1080p FSR at quality and no frame gen, medium high settings mix I can get a stable 60fps for the whole game (If textures are on high it drops to 40s in the grassy part of the plains) on my NVME. On my sata ssd i get 10s to 30fps and on the HDD it hardly gets above 5. If you are having performance problems and your system should be able to run it well then it could be a storage drive issue. Just putting this out there in case it helps anyone.

[Rizo the Hunter]

Its 2025, nvme drives are a must for games.

[Wild]

The gap from nvme and sata is probably 10-20%, but those 2 from hdd is like 300%.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Rizo the Hunter:

Its 2025, nvme drives are a must for games.

4th gen or higher is also preferred.

[liberator65853]

Originally posted by Wild:

The gap from nvme and sata is probably 10-20%, but those 2 from hdd is like 300%.

Its a lot more than that depending on the types. my SSD is an SK Hynix Gold s31 1TB with up to 560mb/s and my NVME SSD is a Teamgroup T-Force z440 Lite 1tb with 4200mb/s and the performance shows in this game a lot.

[Wild]

Originally posted by liberator65853:

Originally posted by Wild:

The gap from nvme and sata is probably 10-20%, but those 2 from hdd is like 300%.

Its a lot more than that depending on the types. my SSD is an SK Hynix Gold s31 1TB with up to 560mb/s and my NVME SSD is a Teamgroup T-Force z440 Lite 1tb with 4200mb/s and the performance shows in this game a lot.

For transfering files yes but for gaming the gap is still not that large.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fno9fXoXMvY

[del_bosque_dol]

100% M.2 recommended for loading a quest faster.

[Iggi]

Originally posted by Wild:

The gap from nvme and sata is probably 10-20%, but those 2 from hdd is like 300%.

It’s far more noticeable for games that use direct storage, which of course not all games do. For the lesser demanding games I just a normal SSD myself. For games such as this one I slap them on my NVME for sure.

[liberator65853]

Originally posted by Wild:

Originally posted by liberator65853:

Its a lot more than that depending on the types. my SSD is an SK Hynix Gold s31 1TB with up to 560mb/s and my NVME SSD is a Teamgroup T-Force z440 Lite 1tb with 4200mb/s and the performance shows in this game a lot.

For transfering files yes but for gaming the gap is still not that large.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fno9fXoXMvY

I was just sharing my results since this game seems to run fine on some systems and bad on another identical system. For me personally the HDD was unplayable and a slide show while the ssd was more stuttery and had less fps than the nvme.

[Iggi]

Originally posted by del_bosque_dol:

100% M.2 recommended for loading a quest faster.

You may be confused. M.2 is the form factor of the drive itself. Basically the shape of the drive itself. An SSD can be in an M.2 format, but an NVME has to be in M.2 format.

Also the M.2 slot on the motherboard is where you install them.

[JamieLinux]

Originally posted by Wild:

The gap from nvme and sata is probably 10-20%, but those 2 from hdd is like 300%.

its upwards of 300% or 5-10 times faster. You are talking fastest SSD 500 MB second , Minimum NVME speed is 3300 mb a second. You can get them up to 11k a second average today is 6GBPS per second.

[Wild]

Originally posted by JamieLinux:

Originally posted by Wild:

The gap from nvme and sata is probably 10-20%, but those 2 from hdd is like 300%.

its upwards of 300% or 5-10 times faster. You are talking fastest SSD 500 MB second , Minimum NVME speed is 3300 mb a second. You can get them up to 11k a second average today is 6GBPS per second.

Load times, not write/read speeds.

[JamieLinux]

Originally posted by Wild:

Originally posted by JamieLinux:

its upwards of 300% or 5-10 times faster. You are talking fastest SSD 500 MB second , Minimum NVME speed is 3300 mb a second. You can get them up to 11k a second average today is 6GBPS per second.

Load times, not write/read speeds.

IF we are talking just load times 5-7 times faster or 30% That does not account for if the game takes advantage of direct storage.

TLDR its 2025 we are actually so far removed from Normal SSD drives. NVME drives for dollar for dollar are actually cheaper then standard ssd 2.5 sata HDD style drives.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by liberator65853:

NVME SSD vs SATA SSD vs HDD
With an RX6650xt 8gb, Ryzen 5 7600, and 32gb of RAM at 1080p FSR at quality and no frame gen, medium high settings mix I can get a stable 60fps for the whole game (If textures are on high it drops to 40s in the grassy part of the plains) on my NVME. On my sata ssd i get 10s to 30fps and on the HDD it hardly gets above 5. If you are having performance problems and your system should be able to run it well then it could be a storage drive issue. Just putting this out there in case it helps anyone.

Good job