Claims That Forspoken Runs Faster on SATA SSDs Are Said to Be from Using Inaccurate Testing Methodology

[Peter_Brosdahl]

In short, ComputerBase explained that data collected by PC Games Hardware was done incorrectly and thus led to a misinterpretation and wrong conclusion. Although performance with a PCIe Gen5 drive is expected to be much faster, the testing with a Gen4 and SATA drives shows virtually identical metrics.

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[MadMummy76]

That's why it's all bs, gen 4, gen 5, directstorage, all pointless snakeoil. In the real world for gaming you'd be hard pressed to notice the difference between any SSD. Even with QLC only the write times go up which don't really affect games.