NVIDIA RTX IO Brings PS5’s Hyped SSD Performance to PCs

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We’ve heard a lot about the PlayStation 5’s magical SSD architecture, which is supposed to usher in an era of lightning-quick loading times and streaming speeds that are unheard of, even in the PC world. Not surprisingly, that exclusive is over.



NVIDIA announced a new I/O architecture called RTX IO today, which leverages Microsoft’s DirectStorage API and promises a huge leap in performance by decompressing and loading assets directly off of the GPU. That means no more potential CPU bottlenecks, as well as a major decrease in processor utilization (20x).



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Microsoft has a blog entry giving a short summary of the feature.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-is-coming-to-pc/