NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe vs. SATA SSD vs. SATA SSHD vs. SATA HDD Game Loading Times

NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe vs. SATA SSD vs. SATA SSHD vs. SATA HDD Game Loading Times. First-time start.

Computer Details :
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
GPU: Palit GeForce RTX 2070 Super GameRock PremiumEdition
RAM: G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 2X8GB DDR4/3400 MHz CL16
PSU: Corsair CX 750 M 750 Watt 80 PLUS
SSD: SABRENT ROCKET NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe 4.0 1TB
SSD: Patriot SSD Burst 960GB 2.5 SATA 3
SSHD: Seagate FireCuda 1 TB internal hybrid hard drive 7200RPM SATA 3
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 3
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock X570 Taichi
COOLER: CoolerMaster MasterLiquid Lite 240
SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro

[JustangGT]

Can you believe you just watched loading time on purpose.

[CaptainEggcellent]

I don’t know why but I imagined M.2 to be a lot quicker than standard SSD

[Kotsugi_]

I feel like loading screens are a whole lot longer when there's a timer

[yusufmetan]

"you can't buy time with Your money" xD

[jeffclark]

For the SSHD it really shows a difference after several load cycles as it builds up the cache for frequently accessed files.

[jedidethfreak]

In short, performance per dollar king is the SATA SSD.

[Movie_Games]

I fucking knew it. SSDs are fast enough. I wish manufacturers would stop trying to make the fastest SSDs and concentrate on making them larger and affordable.

[shadowwill]

It will be interesting to see a new video made once Direct Storage / RTX IO has been implemented and supported. Supposedly it will lower the time required to load game assets.

[anhminhpho]

Song name : Follow You - Fractal Chill mix

[pxl_shootr]

Does anyone still remember this crazy hype like 5 years ago about SSHDs? And today it is just trash.

[brottochstraff]

When you reach a certain SSD-read spead, you essentially become CPU-limited when it comes to loading times as the cpu has to unpack certain texture packs and compressed materials and load things in to RAM och VRAM. We might se bigger difference in the future when CPU's get faster

[Chris-hzll]

why testing SSHD when you test "First-time start." ? SSHD use his cache at second start...

[LucidCoder]

The reason the M.2 isn't a lot faster is because of the operating system overhead. Each read request has to be processed by the CPU as a system call (which is really slow), so the CPU is the bottleneck. This is what DirectStorage is designed to fix. It is a file streaming system designed for high throughput and minimal CPU overhead.

[Mirsab]

I'm hoping with next gen GPUs, Nvmes would make things faster

[amelliaaa]

People at 2040 watch this : What is loading screen?

[kajetus]

m.2 NVMe: Bro
SSD: what
m.2: how fast you are
SSD: a VERY little slower than you
m.2: yes, hey SSHD
m.2: SSHD?
SSHD: what
m.2: how fast u are
m.2: dude wtf
SSHD: half ur speed
m.2 ok so now hdd tell me ur speed
m.2: as fast as sshd?
SSD: he is not responding

[Terra-Antares]

With HDDs you at least have time to read the loading texts... Or bake a cake while the game loads at least when it finally begins you'd already be stuffed with dessert!

[MrKoNtI]

Come one guys, you can put 70000mb/s nvme and the loading still will be the same against a sata ssd, clearly the bottleneck is the cpu that has to talk from storage to system memory and load every thing up to gpu memory, hopefully nvidia rxt 3000 series promise to fix that.

[SeanHefele]

I’m still confused why most of these compilations don’t have Rust, that’s like the king of loading time differences in drives.

[samgao]

For you wondering why SATA SSD is the similar to nvme SSD:
Is because it’s transferring data from storage to physical memory, then the game will transfer from physical memory (RAM) to GPU memory. It probably does so in smaller chunks (could be sequential, could be random) but it’s not optimized for either. So what you’re experiencing is probably random transfers that the only thing you’ll see from a boost a a drive that’s big on random transfers. I’m going to see if an optane drive will be faster than the NAND flash