M2 recommendation for B450 Tomahawk Max?

[jensenco]

Hi guys, I'm gonna buy a new ssd 500gb, but I don't know if it's compatible. I'm also thinking of buying a Samsung 980 PRO

 

my cpu: amd ryzen 5 3600

[Electronics Wizardy]

yea a 980 pro will work, but Id save a bit and get a 970 evo or other gen 3 drive.

[jensenco]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yea a 980 pro will work, but Id save a bit and get a 970 evo or other gen 3 drive.

The 980 pro is currently on discount, with a $20 difference between the 970 evo. Can I reach speeds of 980 Pro with my motherboard?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, jenseny said:

The 980 pro is currently on discount, with a $20 difference between the 970 evo.

Id get the evo, there won't be any performance difference.

[jensenco]

16 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id get the evo, there won't be any performance difference.

Are you sure?

980 pro 6900mb / 5000mb

970 evo 3400mb / 2300mb

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, jenseny said:

Are you sure?

980 pro 6900mb / 5000mb

970 evo 3400mb / 2300mb

FIrst of all, those are peak sequential speeds they won't affect things like boot time or game load time. Even a sata ssd will be about as fast.

 

Your board can also only run at gen 3 x4 speeds, or about 3400mB/s, so they will preform about the same here due to your board.

[jensenco]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

FIrst of all, those are peak sequential speeds they won't affect things like boot time or game load time. Even a sata ssd will be about as fast.

 

Your board can also only run at gen 3 x4 speeds, or about 3400mB/s, so they will preform about the same here due to your board.

Thank you

[Chris Pratt]

B450 only supports PCIe 3.0, so the max drive speed is 3500Mbps. A 980 Pro will work, because PCIe is backwards compatible, but you'll max out at half it's rated speed.

[Chris Pratt]

49 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

FIrst of all, those are peak sequential speeds they won't affect things like boot time or game load time. Even a sata ssd will be about as fast.

 

Your board can also only run at gen 3 x4 speeds, or about 3400mB/s, so they will preform about the same here due to your board.

Slightly incorrect. Yes, those are sequential and random 4K will be much slower, but there's still a benefit over SATA. The SATA random 4K will be even slower.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Chris Pratt said:

Slightly incorrect. Yes, those are sequential and random 4K will be much slower, but there's still a benefit over SATA. The SATA random 4K will be even slower.

Yea random io will be a bit worse in sata ssds, but it will make a very small difference in load times, things like game load times and boot times will be within a second or two normally.

[-rascal-]

48 minutes ago, jenseny said:

Thank you

 

How much is the WD SN750 vs the Samsung 970 EVO / EVO Plus?

SN750 is either performs slight BETTER than the Samsung, or on-par with it.

Usually the WD drive is significantly cheaper too.

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wd-black-sn750-ssd,5957-3.html

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13760/the-western-digital-wd-black-sn750-ssd-review

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3336866/wd-black-sn750-nvme-ssd-review.html