During the 2022 Flash Memory Summit, AMD and Phison showcased the Ryzen 7000 platform with PCIe Gen5 SSD.
This isn’t the first time Phison has shown off the speed of next-gen SSDs. In May of this year, the company showed off its PS5026-E26 PCIe controller connected to an ASUS X670 Hero ROG motherboard. Back then, SSDs offered sequential read speeds of up to 12 GB/s and write speeds of up to 10 GB/s.
This time, the demonstration did not use an intermediate PCIe card, the drive was connected directly to the M.2 slot and worked through the PCIe Gen5 lanes available to the processor. The device is based on 232-layer Micron B58R TLC chips, which are still in the development stage. In this demo, the read and write speeds were slightly lower – about 10 GB / s. This new TLC flash is currently running at 1600 MT/s, but it should reach 2000 MT/s, which should eventually deliver 12/11 GB/s sequential read/write speeds.
The AMD Ryzen 7000 reference platform shown has an unknown Ryzen processor with OPN “100-000000593-20_Y”. Thanks to previous leaks, we have already managed to partially get acquainted with the characteristics of this chip. The CPU was a 6-core Ryzen 5 7600X Raphael processor with Zen4 microarchitecture.
The upcoming AMD X670 and B650 chipsets are expected to support PCIe Gen5 M.2 drives. The company also intends to introduce versions of the X670E and B650E chipsets, which will additionally provide support for the Gen5 interface for GPU needs. So far, PCIe Gen5-enabled drives and gaming processors are not available on the market. They are expected to hit the market in the fourth quarter.
Source: videocardz
