Does IOPs make a difference?

[ng4ever]

On ssds?

Anyway I installed the Intel AHCI/RAID Driver Path for Windows Win8.1 32bit & Win8.1 64bit.
Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver software V12.8.0.1016 for Windows Win8.1 64bit---(WHQL).
Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver software V12.8.0.1016 for Windows Win8.1 32bit---(WHQL).
drivers and had my IOPs scores went from 75,000 and 70,000 to 98,000 and 90,000
ASUS USA

That why I was wondering if higher IOPs is important. I found out motherboard drivers from the manufacturer website from tom's hardware forum would increase your IOP score. Just wondering if it matters much ?
This is on a Samsung 850 Pro SSD.

 

[Ocellaris]

For normal consumer PC use, you are almost never IOP limited.

 

[ng4ever]

So should I care if the driver above increase my IOPS?

 

[jwcalla]

IOPs is probably the most important metric for SSD speeds.

 

[ng4ever]

Ok thanks.

 

[acquacow]

Latency is the #1 factor you are going to experience as a user.

I have drives in my system capable of well over 100K iops, but I've intentionally opened every io-generating app I could find that wasn't just a benchmark and I could only generate around ~30k iops before all 6 cores of my system were completely saturated.