990 Pro not running at max speeds

[BeastHotDogGUY]

Why is my 990 Pro only running at 1.3gbps? I thought it was supposed to run a 7.5gbps

[NikolakiH]

How are you testing the speed / where did you get that number?

[BeastHotDogGUY]

1 minute ago, NikolakiH said:

How are you testing the speed / where did you get that number?

the epic games and steam download speeds

[8tg]

Ye olde advertising fine print

 

Box speeds on ssds are basically like drag race test results under ideal circumstances, they’re tailored numbers. Comparatively to other ssds, bigger number = better, but you’ll rarely if ever see anywhere close to those speeds In real use.

 

Actual pc use isn’t a benchmark. It’s a bunch of annoyingly different sized files of assorted types that have different compression which take up all kinds of time to move around.

[BeastHotDogGUY]

1 minute ago, 8tg said:

Ye olde advertising fine print

 

Box speeds on ssds are basically like drag race test results under ideal circumstances, they’re tailored numbers. Comparatively to other ssds, bigger number = better, but you’ll rarely if ever see anywhere close to those speeds In real use.

 

Actual pc use isn’t a benchmark. It’s a bunch of annoyingly different sized files of assorted types that have different compression which take up all kinds of time to move around.

is there a way I can get it to run faster?

[WereCat]

7 minutes ago, BeastHotDogGUY said:

is there a way I can get it to run faster?

Copy a large video file

[Jon-Slow]

You need to run your benchmark using CrystalDiskMark and then compare it to online results from other people. And then if you're doing specially bad you can post your results.

 

[Eigenvektor]

27 minutes ago, BeastHotDogGUY said:

the epic games and steam download speeds

That's going to be limited by your download speed more than anything.

 

Unless you have an internet connection that is capable of 7 GB/s and the server you're downloading from is capable of delivering that speed, you'll never get close to that number. For the sake of comparison:

• 1 Gbps -> 125 MB/s
• 10 Gbps -> 1.25 GB/s
• 40 Gbps -> 5 GB/s
• 100 Gbps -> 12.5 GB/s

In other words, there's no way to realistically get close to that speed with any commercially available internet connection. Use a benchmark tool like CrystalDiskMark

 

55 minutes ago, BeastHotDogGUY said:

Why is my 990 Pro only running at 1.3gbps? I thought it was supposed to run a 7.5gbps

No. It's supposed to run at 7.4 Gigabyte per second (read) and 6.9 GB/s (write). Not 7.5 Gigabit per second. That's a difference of factor 8 in between there.

[Doobeedoo]

I mean you expect fast downloads do you have 100Gbit internet or something.