This is pretty interesting as a half measure towards unified memory. Obviously the PCIe bus is the bottleneck here, but using the 16x slot should be slightly faster than using your NVMe.
I was wondering about this not that long ago when remembering shit I had to do back in the day when my PC was just an off the shelf Gateway my parents got me: How much faster is having a swap file on an M.2 SSD vs the SATA HDD I would have had back in 2001 or so? And is it still barely an improvement over just installing more RAM, or would it actually be beneficial to some degree these days? 🤔
I really haven’t researched or looked into components since my 20s, so there’s a lot about some of these new components and tech I don’t really know much about. My current rig is just what Reddit had recommended for entry level VR back in 2015/2016.
This is pretty interesting as a half measure towards unified memory. Obviously the PCIe bus is the bottleneck here, but using the 16x slot should be slightly faster than using your NVMe.
I was wondering about this not that long ago when remembering shit I had to do back in the day when my PC was just an off the shelf Gateway my parents got me: How much faster is having a swap file on an M.2 SSD vs the SATA HDD I would have had back in 2001 or so? And is it still barely an improvement over just installing more RAM, or would it actually be beneficial to some degree these days? 🤔
I really haven’t researched or looked into components since my 20s, so there’s a lot about some of these new components and tech I don’t really know much about. My current rig is just what Reddit had recommended for entry level VR back in 2015/2016.
At a really high level, SATA III had a 6Gbps data rate (8 bits per Byte, so 750MB/s) so most SATA SSDs were giving you 550MB/s at the most.
Conversely, NVMe is usually a PCIe x4 slot, which tops out at 4GB/s. Most M.2 NVMe drives will give you 3200MB/s, which is easily six times faster.
Edit: for a fun point of reference, old HDDs were about 60MB/s, with high latency on top of that due to seek time.