Intel's first XPoint powered SSD has been revealed
Intel's first XPoint powered SSD has been revealed
Published: 9th February 2017 | Source: Techbang |
Intel's first XPoint powered SSD has been revealed
(XPOINT SSDs offer much more stable read/write speeds at varying queue depths)
In the specifications list below, Intel's P4800X is listed as having 4K random IOPS of up to 550/500K, where Intel's older SSD DC P3700 only offering 75,000IOPs, though this SSD is a mere PCIe SATA drive.
Comparing this to Samsung's mighty SSD 960 Pro the P4800X offers much higher random IOPS, with the Samsung offering 330,000IPS read/write on their 512GB model. If these drives were compared using a queue depth of one, the Intel XPOINT SSD would offer an even more staggering performance improvement.
While XPOINT memory will not be transformative when it comes to sequential read/write speeds, it completely changes the game when it comes to accessing data at low queue depths, allowing smaller chunks of data to be accessed quickly and an SSD experience that feels much faster than even current NVMe offerings.
Right now we do not know when Intel plans on bringing their new XPOINT memory to the consumer market, though the company already marks their newest CPU and motherboard offerings as "Optane Ready", which means that XPOINT SSDs are coming to the consumer market.
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