Alan Wake 2 Spotted Hammering Gen5 NVMe SSD with Transfer Speeds Over 2 GB/s

[Peter_Brosdahl]

DirectStorage slowly continues to gain traction on PCs since being revealed in 2020 and now Alan Wake 2 has been spotted using it to push a Gen5 SSD to its limits. The sequel game from Remedy Entertainment has already received praise for its realistic-looking visuals which has placed the game in the current list for benchmarking but now its use of the newer DirectX API feature adds another metric to track. Alan Wake 2 was spotted hitting speeds up to 2.74 GB/s during testing on a Crucial T700 Gen5 SSD bringing the NVMe SSD within 9°C of its thermal throttling temperature.

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[Grimlakin]

DirectStorage slowly continues to gain traction on PCs since being revealed in 2020 and now Alan Wake 2 has been spotted using it to push a Gen5 SSD to its limits. The sequel game from Remedy Entertainment has already received praise for its realistic-looking visuals which has placed the game in the current list for benchmarking but now its use of the newer DirectX API feature adds another metric to track. Alan Wake 2 was spotted hitting speeds up to 2.74 GB/s during testing on a Crucial T700 Gen5 SSD bringing the NVMe SSD within 9°C of its thermal throttling temperature.

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That's nice... I mean that a game is FINALLY using the bandwidth available on a SSD. BUT it's also bad... because now cooling for said SSD's will become far more important. If you didn't buy one with a integrated heat sink then you'll be wanting a good one on your motherbooard.

And I am thinking a lot of manufacturers didn't design their solutions for HOURS of gameplay running against max TDP output of their devices.