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SATA vs NVMe (I5-8250U)

ydal251
By ydal251
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Will an I5-8250U be able to saturate a normal M.2 SATA 3 link under normal conditions? I'm looking to buy a Thinkpad 480/480s/580 and I wanted to see if the price difference to NVMe was even worth it in a laptop form factor where the CPU will likely be running at a lower clock most of the time compared to a desktop. I can't imagine the NVMe drives will be worth the price difference but I wanted to see if anyone had solid performance numbers on the differences for NVMe vs SATA.

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Look at youtube. Lot of videos.

Even in very powerful computers, NVMe not give you performance boost except you working on large files like video editing.

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The CPU doesn't really matter TBH, it's about how manufacturer design the mobo for every different model. Also chipset limitation

 

For normal users, you won't see a noticable benefit by going NVMe and those drives run hot under load. SATA SSD is enough

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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