Instead of raw compute performance, Intel has taken a new approach of comparison against its biggest rival AMD. Ryan Shrout has recently shared some storage performance results that show Core i9-11900K’s PCIe Gen 4 storage performance is up to 11% faster than Ryzen 9 5950X on PCMark 10 Quick System Drive Benchmark.
The performance slide teased by Intel’s Ryan Shrout shows the Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 M.2 NVMe SSD performance when powered by a Core i9-11900K processor, compared to the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X.
As TechPowerUP says, the PCMark 10 Quick System Drive Benchmark is used to evaluate storage performance on both machines. As there was a separate drive for boot, the Samsung 980 PRO is used as a dedicated test drive.
When asked whether the Samsung 980 PRO was installed on the CPU-attached M.2 slot on the AMD machine or not, Shrout clarified the drives were tested on CPU-attached M.2 slots on both platforms.
The test is said to be done via the x16 slot with a riser card to make sure it was CPU attached on both platforms. The tweet shows Intel is promising to provide good PCIe Gen 4 storage performance over AMD and it will be interesting to see if those claims are correct for everyone or not.
Intel test system:
11th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900K: Processor: 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900K processor (RKL-S) PL1=125W TDP, 8C16T, Motherboard: ASUS Z590 ROG Maximus XIII Hero, Bios Version: 0402, Memory: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200, Storage OS Drive: 512GB Intel SSD 760p, Storage Test Drive: 1TB Gen 4 Samsung 980 Pro, Storage Driver: Microsoft Inbox, Display Resolution: 1920×1080, OS: Microsoft Windows 10 20H2 – 19042.746, Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition, Graphics Driver: 461.09
AMD test system:
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X: Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X processor PL1=105W TDP, 16C32T, Motherboard: ASUS X570 ROG Rampage VIII Hero, Bios Version: 3202, Memory: 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3200, Storage OS Drive: 512GB Intel SSD 760p, Storage Test Drive: 1TB Gen 4 Samsung 980 Pro, Storage Driver: Microsoft Inbox, Display Resolution: 1920×1080, OS: Microsoft Windows 10 20H2 – 19042.746, Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition, Graphics Driver: 461.09
via Videocardz
