Samsung hints that its high bandwidth, low latency NVMe SSD will power next generation gaming consoles. Sony's PlayStation 5 could have a speed boost courtesy of the sixth generation Solid State Drive (SSD) from the Seoul-based tech and electronics giant. Samsung reveals these details on the Samsung SSD forum held earlier in November.
VGC first reported the possibility of Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox Scarlett housing this next generation SSD. At the forum, the Seoul-based tech giant discussed the next generation SSD technology that the company has. Samsung Senior Managing Director Han Jinman introduced and discussed the new range of Samsung SSDs, which is the Non-Volatile Memory Express SSDs anticipated to be released on PC and consumer gaming consoles releasing in 2020.
The report also reveals that during the forum, Samsung shared an image of DualShock 4. Additionally, it showed the loading times comparison between an SSD, a hard drive, and Samsung's NVMe SSD. Based on the presentation, Samsung estimated that it takes 49 seconds for a hard drive to do a system boot, 29 seconds for the SSD.
Interestingly, Samsung claimed in the presentation that the Samsung NVMe SSD would take lesser time booting the system, but it failed to show the period it would take. Gamerant believes that Samsung's next-generation SSD might be overkill for gaming. Still, it might not be ready in time for the release of Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox Scarlett. The presentation also underlined the new Samsung PM1733 SSDs. This type has a read speed of 6.4 GB per second and a write speed of over PCIe 4.0.
It is worth noting that these figures are intended for data centers and not for video gaming consoles. Sony Interactive Entertainment Lead Architect Mark Cerny already revealed that the PlayStation 5 would use an SSD to speed up game loading. And while Samsung did not directly state in the presentation which next-generation gaming console will utilize its future generation technology, the image of the DualShock 4 is a solid hint that it will be in PlayStation 5.
The Seoul-based tech and electronics giant, according to reports shown off the speed of PlayStation 5 against the PS4 when it comes to game loading. The "Spider-Man" title only took 0.8 seconds to boot using the next generation gaming hardware. Earlier reports claim that the PlayStation 5 will house a 2 TB SSD, which according to Gamerant, could be the older generation Samsung NVMe SSDs. Whatever Sony and Microsoft are preparing and equipping on their next-generation gaming console, it will more likely be specialized and customized.
