There's no holding back: After Corsair revealed its first SSD with PCIe 5.0, the MP700, Gigabyte followed suit. The Aorus Gen5 10000 SSD is said to be faster than the Corsair counterpart with up to 12.5 GB/s in the benchmark.
Gigabyte reveals Aorus Gen5 10000
Gigabyte showed a picture of the Aorus Gen5 10000 on Twitter, which comes in the usual M.2 2280 form factor and without a bulky cooler. A follow-up tweet shows a screenshot from the popular disk benchmark CrystalDiskMark, which shows sequential throughput of around 12.5 GB/s read and 10 GB/s write.
Aorus Gen5 10000 SSD (image: gigabytes)
In addition to these high values, current PCIe 4.0 bolides scratch at 7.5 GB/s, but there is a less strong result of only 62 MB/s in random reading (4K Random Q1T1). SSDs with Phison E18 and PCIe 4.0 achieve over 80 MB/s here. However, the respective test platform and in particular the main processor have a major influence on this value.
With marginal deviations, the values correspond to those of a demo at Computex: The controller manufacturer Phison presented a prototype with an E26 controller and TLC-3D-NAND from Micron. It is now almost certain that the Aorus Gen5 10000 uses the same technical basis.
Phison demonstrates E26 SSD controller (Image: Phison)The industry is gearing up for the fall
Corsair also recently gave a glimpse of its first SSD with PCIe 5.0. The Corsair MP700 reads data at up to 10,000 MB/s and writes at 9,500 MB/s. The throughput would therefore be lower than that of the Gigabyte counterpart. However, the specifications are not set in stone for either of them.
The number of information about the first PCIe 5.0 SSDs for consumers is increasing these days. No wonder, since the market launch should take place parallel to the release of the new AMD platform with the AM5 mainboards for Ryzen 7000. At the end of August, AMD will present the processors and the new Zen 4 CPU architecture in more detail. However, the actual market launch is not expected until September.
Apacer, Asus, Crucial (Micron), MSI, PNY and Seagate, among others, also want to contribute to the new SSD generation with PCIe 5.0.
AMD provides the platform for new NVMe SSDs with PCIe 5.0