NVME vs SATA SSD

[karol_]

Hello,

Sorry if this has been already asked 1000 times.

I have a SATA MX500 SSD. In multiple games I can see that there are quite a lot of textures popping. I saw in the news recently that the new PS5 SSD is going to reduce pop ins.

So I have been wondering, is upgrading my MX500 to 970 evo plus a worthy upgrade and would it somehow reduce textures popping?

I have RTX 2080 (with plans to upgrade soon) + 8086k.

 

[EsaT]

Texture popping might be also about coding of that particular game.
Normally assets like textures are loaded and cached to graphics card VRAM or to main RAM during game loading.
Though game can start level before that process is fully completed resulting texture popping for some seconds.
Also assets can be stored on drive in compressed form/in bigger packages instead of lots of individual smaller files causing CPU load.

But if that texture popping happens constantly, that's sign of either not enough memory to store those assets, or then GPU/driver issue.


Anyway Samsung pretty much butt rapes consumers with their brand.
Bang per buck 1TB drives cost half of Samsung and full PCIe v3 speed drives third less!
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0c-hd-56l-wd.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t3x0c-hd-55v-wd.html


And Intel isn't much better in pricing.
There's zero sense to buy basic six core CPU without proper upgrade path.
Next-gen consoles coming before Christmas bring non-boosting variant of basically 8 core/16 thread Ryzen 3700X to mainstream.