Graphics straight off the SSD

[Aree Soothsayer]

The ps5 being able to pull graphics smoothly from the drive so there's no load time in transitions.

 

Will that make the insane speeds of the M.2 drives viable for the pc to take that approach to games ourselves?

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Yes.

[WereCatf]

5 minutes ago, Aree Soothsayer said:

Will that make the insane speeds of the M.2 drives viable for the pc to take that approach to games ourselves?

It's unlikely multi-platform games will make use of that, because games on PC will still have to target the lowest common denominator, ie. people with spinning rust HDDs.

[Fasauceome]

We shall see, this is a yet unproven technology.

 

Cool in concept, but if developers do not implement it, it will change nothing.

[AAABattery]

1 hour ago, WereCatf said:

It's unlikely multi-platform games will make use of that, because games on PC will still have to target the lowest common denominator, ie. people with spinning rust HDDs.

I think it will come to PC pretty soon. There's the classic example of when 3D games required discrete gpu's and everyone doubted that the future would require you to game with something other than the cpu and here we are. It also helps that nvme ssds are a lot cheaper than gpus.

[IAmAndre]

As Linus mentioned, the bottleneck on PC is basically the OS. Windows doesn't seem to be capable of fully taking advantage of the extra speed so we'll see if that will change.

[piemadd]

1 hour ago, Aree Soothsayer said:

The ps5 being able to pull graphics smoothly from the drive so there's no load time in transitions.

 

Will that make the insane speeds of the M.2 drives viable for the pc to take that approach to games ourselves?

well that honestly isn't too hard. blender actually stores most of the textures and models being used right on the drive, and it does it quite fast. when i rotate around a scene in blender I can hear the head moving on my hard drive.

[Aree Soothsayer]

Hehe. Now I have a legit reason to get an M.2 for my games.. and not just because I want hardware that is more than needed for the first time. =P

[Dedayog]

32 minutes ago, Aree Soothsayer said:

Hehe. Now I have a legit reason to get an M.2 for my games.. and not just because I want hardware that is more than needed for the first time. =P

You should have your games on an SSD.  M.2 sure, but SATA or NVMe?

 

You're going to have to go thru the OS anyway, so it really won't matter which.  I'm not believing the hype of the new gen consoles just yet. 

[Aree Soothsayer]

Bwahahahah!

 

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[Mihle]

I would wait until there comes a game that actually need it that you want to play.

 

Also, you would not need a super fast one like PCIe 4. Even if an developer ignore HDDs and SATA SSDs, they would design games to run on an Xbox SX, and that one, do have NVMe, but as far as the info we have now, isn't that fast for a NVMe.