Capped at 500 MB/s

[NextraMia]

Hello!
I got some Samsung 980 Pro's and on the package it says it's capable of up to 7000MB/s yet when i do steam updates it only reaches around 500MB/s. I have it in a NVMe port on my motherboard and when it does the 500MB/s it doesn't do 100% load... is this a common thing or am i missing something?

[jaslion]

The steam update is just not able to use the full speed of it or it's doing a task where it can't do full speed.

 

I mean it's why to this day you really need to have a specific usecase to see the difference between a decent sata ssd and the fastest nvme drive out there. For generic use and gaming there is basically no difference since programs aren't optimized to use such high bandwiths and often run into other bottlenecks along the way be it hardware or software wise.

[Spotty]

14 minutes ago, NextraMia said:

it's capable of up to 7000MB/s yet when i do steam updates it only reaches around 500MB/s.

If you're doing updates to games in Steam it will be largely dependent on your internet speed. What's your internet speed? 

 

There's programs such as crystal disk mark and HD sentinel that will let you benchmark the read/write performance of your drive. Try that and see what speed you get with the drive.

[Chris Pratt]

Bench it with CrystalDiskMark to ensure it's getting the correct speed. If it's good there, then yeah, it's as @jaslionsaid: not every use case is going to fully saturate the bandwidth. There's a lot of applications that just don't need those transfer speeds. For Steam, the main bottleneck is going to be your downlink. The actual drive write speeds are it just unpacking what it's been able to download, which will be faster, but it's still going to hit a wall from running out of data to unpack while waiting for the rest of the download.

[NextraMia]

6 minutes ago, jaslion said:

The steam update is just not able to use the full speed of it or it's doing a task where it can't do full speed.

 

I mean it's why to this day you really need to have a specific usecase to see the difference between a decent sata ssd and the fastest nvme drive out there. For generic use and gaming there is basically no difference since programs aren't optimized to use such high bandwiths and often run into other bottlenecks along the way be it hardware or software wise.

i see i see

[NextraMia]

3 minutes ago, Spotty said:

If you're doing updates to games in Steam it will be largely dependent on your internet speed. What's your internet speed? 

 

There's programs such as crystal disk mark and HD sentinel that will let you benchmark the read/write performance of your drive. Try that and see what speed you get with the drive.

i have 500/500 Fiber

[NextraMia]

3 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

Bench it with CrystalDiskMark to ensure it's getting the correct speed. If it's good there, then yeah, it's as @jaslionsaid: not every use case is going to fully saturate the bandwidth. There's a lot of applications that just don't need those transfer speeds. For Steam, the main bottleneck is going to be your downlink. The actual drive write speeds are it just unpacking what it's been able to download, which will be faster, but it's still going to hit a wall from running out of data to unpack while waiting for the rest of the download.

thx

[NextraMia]

i guess steam just can't do it faster, got 6705 MB/s in CrystalDiskMark
thx for help

[FloRolf]

33 minutes ago, NextraMia said:

i guess steam just can't do it faster, got 6705 MB/s in CrystalDiskMark
thx for help

If you have 500/500 fibre then steam only does 500mbit/s and not 500mbyte/s as you wrote. That would be factor 8 more. Your ssd is MUCH faster. 

[NextraMia]

it's not on downloads i'm talking about... i'm talking about the validations aka disk only