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Samsung 950 Pro vs 980 Pro?

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David-Duc

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My 950 Pro is still rocking 4 years later… everything is still feel blazing fast (to me). I wonder if there is any noticeable performance increase to get a 980 Pro?
Currently have a 950 Pro 512GB on an X570 mobo with a 5900X.
 
Very unlikely that you would notice a significant increase, or any increase at all. If you were making the leap from SATA to NVMe then the difference would be more significant, although still small. But it also depends on exactly what you are doing with your drive. Are you doing any particularly data intensive tasks?

One issue is that file transfers (including a game trying to load textures from the SSD into VRAM) are going to be limited by file system protocols that in many cases date back to the era of mechanical hard drives. New protocols such as DirectStorage have been developed to address this but have not yet been widely adopted.

I'd recommend either sticking with the 950 Pro, or if you need more space for games, get a smaller, cheaper 980 Pro to use as a dedicated games drive, separate from your OS drive. Long term, the best bet would be to wait until games begin to actually implement DirectStorage, then upgrade to the best SSD available at that time.
 
GotNoRice said:
Very unlikely that you would notice a significant increase, or any increase at all. If you were making the leap from SATA to NVMe then the difference would be more significant, although still small. But it also depends on exactly what you are doing with your drive. Are you doing any particularly data intensive tasks?

One issue is that file transfers (including a game trying to load textures from the SSD into VRAM) are going to be limited by file system protocols that in many cases date back to the era of mechanical hard drives. New protocols such as DirectStorage have been developed to address this but have not yet been widely adopted.

I'd recommend either sticking with the 950 Pro, or if you need more space for games, get a smaller, cheaper 980 Pro to use as a dedicated games drive, separate from your OS drive. Long term, the best bet would be to wait until games begin to actually implement DirectStorage, then upgrade to the best SSD available at that time.
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I mostly use the computer for games, run a few VMs and davinci resolve video editing (scratch media stored on the 950 pro, output videos stored on a SATA SSD). Kind of have to ask because looking at benchmarks, it seems like the 980 pro utterly destroys the 950 pro, lol.
 
For game drive isn't better to go cheaper/faster but not pro, like the EVO ?

Not much writing go on, on those.
 
LukeTbk said:
For game drive isn't better to go cheaper/faster but not pro, like the EVO ?

Not much writing go on, on those.
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Considering my 950 Pro was last bought in 2017 and still running perfectly fine... I'd like to stick with the pro series, I know they're TLC now but the price difference is really negligible.
 
I have a pair of them in my PC, a 1TB for the OS, apps, and a couple of games, and the 2TB mainly for games.
I mainly play Overwatch and that game isn't too large or demanding and the game feels like it loads the same on this system as it did on my other system that uses WD SN750 1TB and 500GB.

980 Pro nice and fast according to the benchmarks,
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Sequential benchmarks unfortunately don't reflect most real world subjective results. The 980 Pro might give you a small boost doing your Resolve editing if your files are large, as in tens of gigabytes or more. If you are basically satisfied now, I think moving to the 980 Pro would very probably feel like a disappointment / waste of money.
 
The only reason to upgrade a gaming box would be if the current SSD is running out of space.

It's important to note that the real reason SSDs feel so fast is not because of the raw file transfer speed. It's the drastically reduced latency in getting to the data, relative to a HDD, that provides the benefit. Upgrading from a PCIe3 to PCIe4 NVMe SSD is not going to provide any useful change here (maybe a percentage point or two).
 
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