The Samsung 9100 Pro 1 TB (PCIE 5.0 X4 NVME M.2 SSD) is the new badge of the Korean house in relation to solid state units. In general, it arrives to mark the leap to PCIE 5.0 x4 in consumption storage. This translates into a huge speed increase, since offers sequential readings/writings up to 14,800/13,400 Mb/sapproximately twice as fast as those of its predecessor, the successful 990 pro.
In practice, this means that unity You can load games and data to a vertiginous speedeliminating bottlenecks and very reducing waiting times. Apparently, Samsung has designed it thinking both Gamers and content creators, since it combines surprising performance, with reliability and energy efficiency. As video game fans, the 9100 PRO will compensate us with brutal performance figures.
Extreme speed
In parallel, the arrival of technologies such as Microsoft Directorage (Designed to take advantage of the SSD NVME and accelerate the loading of data in games) allows the 9100 to be even more efficient. In tests with 3DMark Directorage, it reaches a reading rate of 23.7 GB/s when handling data using Gdeflate compression, surpassing by wide margin to the SSD PCIe 4.0 of the previous generation. Even transferring data directly to the RAM with active directorage, this unit achieves about 11.6 GB/s, practically double that typical gen4 units.
As for our direct interests, all of the above translates into Scenarios without load screenshigh resolution textures that are incorporated instantly and open world games where to move from one area to another is faster and more soft.
PCIE 5.0 at performance service
The 9100 Pro boasts large numbers, but also advanced technical solutions. In fact, it is Samsung’s first PCIE 5.0 SSD for the consumer market that Duplicate the bandwidth available in front of its PCIE 4.0 units. It incorporates the new owner of the house, called “Presto”, manufactured in 5 Nm and optimized for GEN5, together with the last 8th generation V-Nand TLC memory (236 layers). This combination offers enormous improvement in random operations: up to 2,200,000 IOPS in reading and 2,600,000 IOPS in writing.
IOPS (input/output operations per second) indicate agility with small, vital files so that the system responds quickly when loading or handling fragmented data. This increase in random performance (approximately 1.5 times that of 990 pro in reading and even more in writing) directly bonuses the scenarios in in -line games with many elements charging simultaneously or works with enormous areas full of textures.
Its energy efficiency is also out of any doubt. Korean engineers say that the 9100 pro achieves up to 49% more performance per watt compared to the previous generationthanks to optimizations in the controller and thermal management.
Video, rendering and other tasks edition
The 9100 pro also develops without problem in demanding professional tasks. If you dedicate yourself to video edition, 3D animation, photography or rendering, rapid storage marks differences in the pace of work. That is, thanks to its sequential speeds, move heavy video files (think of 4K or 8K material without compressing) is much faster. For example, transferring 100 GB of gross footage could take only a few seconds, cutting dead times when copying or exporting projects. In fact, Samsung emphasizes that improved random readings/writings of the 9100 PRO (up to 2.2/2.6 million IOPS) are very interesting for video editing and intensive data loads, since they allow you to quickly access all those auxiliary files that are part of a large project.
Samsung 990 Pro and the rest of SSD PCIE 4.0
To consider in its fair measure this generational jump, it is worth comparing the 9100 PRO with the 990 PRO (one of the SSD PCIE 4.0 faster) of the previous generation, which already offered excellent figures – around 7,450 mb/s of sequential reading and 6,900 MB/s of writing in its limit -, but the new 9100 pro duplica those numbers with great numbers, reaching up to 14,8 GB/s in reading and 13.4 GB/s in writing.
This is evident as no other PCIE 4.0 SSD can follow the rhythm in sustained transfers. Even very popular units such as the WD Black SN850X or Seagate Firecuda 530 (both high -end pcie 4.0) are left behind: their speeds are around 7 GB/s, approximately half of what the 9100 Pro delivers.
In current benchmarks, the 9100 pro exceeds the SN850X in practically all aspects; For example, in data loading the difference in favor of the Samsung card increases as it is heavier or more concurrent. This gives us a fairly precise idea of its gross power in intensive reading tasks.
Conclusion
The Samsung 9100 Pro 1Tb represents a generational leap in storage which is clearly noticeable both in figures and in everyday experience. The Korean house has achieved a balance between bringing PCIE 5.0 speeds to the limit and maintain an efficient and suitable product for daily use.
Beyond the mathematical exercise, we find a solid state unit designed to improve the experience of that type of player or professional that needs more. In the words of its engineers, “it establishes a new era of performance by offering more storage, higher speed, better efficiency and reliability.” Nothing to object!