Gen 3 NVME SSD in Gen 4 x570 Motherboard speeds?

[Glennister]

Hi I found my way here after watching a few youtube Videos  :-)  

 

The question I have is if i put a gen 3 NVME SSD in a Gen 4 M2 slot on an x570 board will there be any performance increase over the SSD's stated speeds?

 

For example a Gen 3 NVME SSD with read/write speeds of up to 3,400MB/s / 3,000MB/s (Isn't this the maximum achievable in Gen 3)

 

Is the Gen 3 chipset the limit or is the SSD locked to those max speeds as well? 

 

Thanks in advance

 

[barondeau]

Most likely not, I am thinking that the connector is the slowest part (ssd side) and I don't think they made gen 3 ssds up to gen 4 spec

[Turtle Rig]

11 minutes ago, Glennister said:

Hi I found my way here after watching a few youtube Videos  :-)  

 

The question I have is if i put a gen 3 NVME SSD in a Gen 4 M2 slot on an x570 board will there be any performance increase over the SSD's stated speeds?

 

For example a Gen 3 NVME SSD with read/write speeds of up to 3,400MB/s / 3,000MB/s (Isn't this the maximum achievable in Gen 3)

 

Is the Gen 3 chipset the limit or is the SSD locked to those max speeds as well? 

 

Thanks in advance

 

You need a proper PCIe 4.0 M.2 drive.  Or adapter card drive to take advantage fully and what not.

[avargas687]

I think it has something to do with the SSD controller chip controlling the SSD speeds. So the controller will bottleneck your gen3 SSD in a PCIE4.0 slot