Samsung 980 PRO vs. 970 EVO Plus (500 GB)

With Samsung releasing PCIe Gen 4 NVMe drive testing one and comparing it with his younger Gen 3 brother 970 EVO Plus I've been using for the last 8 months was an obvious way to go.

0:00 We have to begin somewhere
0:47 We need data, lots of data
1:26 CrystalDiskMark in PCIe Gen. 4.0
1:39 CrystalDiskMark in PCIe Gen. 3.0
1:53 CrystalDiskMark Real World Performance
2:04 Aja write test, 980 PRO
4:24 Aja write test, 970 EVO Plus
6:00 Mine cashe is bigger than yours
6:19 Conclusion

Drives tested:
- Samsung 980 PRO 500 GB,
- Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500 GB.

Tests are done on a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite & Ryzen 3700X and both drives were having passive heatsinks.

I hope all those terabytes written on these drives may help you in some way if you wonder what NVMe drive to get for your machine.

Samsung 980 PRO is compared with 970 EVO Plus because with the switch from 2-bit NAND (previously known as MLC but TLC and QLC are by definition Multi-Level Cell too) to 3-bit NAND 980 PRO is, in my opinion, essentially the Gen 4 NVMe evolution of 970 EVO Plus.

If you need bigger drive versions they come with 1 GB of Ram instead of 512 GB, have bigger SLC cashe (6 GB instead of 4) and have faster write TLC speeds when cashe is full.

* In table I misplaced names of the controllers, Phoenix drives 970 EVO Plus and Elpis 980 PRO.

#Samsung980PRO #Samsung970EVOPlus #500GB

[jimmysoncookland]

Great vid mate the one I've been looking for

[dondonMMD]

Hello. I’m wondering their difference in gaming loading time.
I am looking for a 970 EP or 980 PRO for my new PC (capable for PCI-E 4.0) . And what I most care about is loading time in games.
Nowadays most reviews shows us that how much MB/s does nothing for shortening the loading time. So simply upgrade to an PCI-E 4.0 is unlikely helps. But latency is a key, and we saw Samsung put a new controller for 980 pro. I wonder if the new controller shortens the latency and then loading times

[Maky]

Hi. Thank you very much for the video...
but I was wondering why the 980 Pro, which is a gen 4.0 device, was tested on a PCI 3.0 slot?
I presume the numbers wouldn't be accurate and that the 980 would be bottlenecked compared to if it was tested on a PCI 4.0 slot?

[aimanmega]

Im glad you reply every question in here, my question is, can u suggest which one is better with ryzen 5600x+rtx 3060 ti and also which mobo are the best for 1tb ssd x2

[fotovisao]

Please I want to replace my SSD from my Macbook Pro 2015 Retina, only 128gb. Whats the best SSD for video editing in Premiere Pro? I saw that have any adapter to run this, can u tell me what adapter can I use, and what Samsumg Ssd is better in my case ? Thanks a lot for the video, congrats Bro !!!

[midnightclub]

would a 980 pro work on a asus rog z490 motherboard with a 10th gen intel cpu, or should I go with the 970 pro?

[Goch]

What i want - 980 pro. 500GB
What i have - 970 plus 500GB
What i need - 860 Evo 2TB
What i learnt is am addicted to speeds that i can't afford. I will stick to my 970 Evo plus till it dies.

[bbogdanz]

Very good comparison! I am thinking of switching to AMD to be able to add PCIE-4 and this bad boy. Currently I have Evo Plus and I use my workstation only for programming. Thanks man!

[Major]

Awesome comparison.

I am currently rocking a 1TB 980 PRO as my boot drive and I am planning to buy a 2TB 970 EVO as a backup drive only.

[AchicaMkd]

I want to upgrade nvme ssd evo 980 evo 970 plus or kingston a2000? what you think man?

[mccringy]

For editing videos, is there a big difference between 970 and 980

[DefinitelyNotDavid]

Hey sorry im about to get into photography and video editing as a hobby i was wondering as someone thats new is it fine if I cheap out and go for the 970 evo?

[axelsanchez]

That was a really great video bro. I've been searching something like this to help me determine if I should buy an 970 Evo Plus or the newest 980 Pro.

[HungLoo]

Why is that my Q32T16 for the 970 EVO Plus is reading so low? Read (MB/s) 675.96 and Write (MB/s) 288.53

[TheRetroChallengerV]

I'm wondering... if my laptop only supposrts gen 3. Should I still buy the 980 pro (which is gen 4) and have it on mode Gen.3? Possible?

[mvbproductions_in]

Need Help. I do heavy Video editing on XPS 15 7590. Confused on 970 plus or 980 pro? Will it give significant performance on my laptop?

[avanfabiandaniswara]

hello bro, i want to ask, with around 15$ different between 970 ep and 980 pro, is it really worthy to go for 980 pro? i use it for programming purpose

[shayanaqabarary]

Thanks for this video, I need help, is 980 pro compatible with Gigabyte z490 ud an i7 10700 (for this speeds)
I think maybe with above motherboard and cpu can't reach very different speed with 970 plus.
Please answer it is right or not.

[MichaelMolli]

1000GB WD Black SN750 / SN 850 ... or ... 1000GB Samsung SSD 980 / 980 Pro?

[asvpxalex]

So I’m building a gaming pc right now, and I have the 2tb 970. Should I go with the 980? Right now for a 2tb 980, it’ll be 150 more. But I can get a 1tb 980 for around 50 cheaper than what I paid for on my 2tb 970. So if the 980 is the better choice should I get it?