Since the first generation of Titanium PCI-E NVMe SSD to the market has been more than a year now, this year with Intel upgraded its desktop platform to PCI-E 4.0, a new generation of PCI-E 4.0 SSD has also been born, and the third generation of 3D flash memory of Yangtze River Storage has long been put into production, using a new generation of Xtacking 2.0 architecture, their SSD has also arrived at the time of update, at the end of this year, Titum took out their new generation of SSD product TiPro7000, the new SSD using the new PCI-E 4.0 master control, the performance has been greatly improved compared with the previous generation of products.
In addition, the brand name has also been changed from "titum" to "zhi state", the pronunciation has not changed, but the text has changed, and the new "zhi state" is committed to consumer-grade 3D flash memory system products. "State" is the attitude of doing products, the temperature of doing service, and the adherence to the original intention of doing a good job of "state" brand.
SSD to large capacity development is the trend, the state-oriented TiPro7000 this time directly from 512GB to start, up there are 1TB, 2TB, this SSD uses the Innogrit IG5236 master control, with the Yangtze River Storage third generation 3D NAND, TLC particles, 512GB continuous read and write speed are 6900/2700 MB/s, 1TB and 2TB continuous read speed are 7400MB/s, 1TB continuous write is 5400 MB/ s,2TB has the best performance, continuous write speed is 6700 MB/s, warranty is five years, warranty write volume is 300TBW per 512GB.
Introduction to the State-Oriented TiPro7000 SSD
Zhi state TiPro7000 roughly continues the packaging of the previous generation of PC005 Active, which has a photo of the SSD and prints a circuit diagram substrate, and has the trademark of the Yangtze River storage Xtacking architecture 3D NAND in the upper right corner, the model of the product is printed in the lower left corner, this time the support for PCI-E 4.0 is clearly printed on it, and there is a sticker in the lower right corner, marking the capacity of this product and the reading speed of up to 7400MB/s, and this SSD is attached with a radiator, After installing a heat sink, the operating temperature of the SSD can be effectively reduced to ensure the stability of performance.
The back of the box becomes white on a black background, which contains some product information, including the use of M.2 NVMe interface, the warranty period is 5 years, and the official technical support telephone number. In addition, the three core advantages of Xtacking Xtacking 3D NAND are also printed here, and Xtacking's innovative architecture can enable 3D NAND to have faster I/O transmission speed, higher storage density and modular process to improve R&D efficiency and shorten production cycle.
After unpacking, you can see the state-oriented TiPro7000 SSD and the distribution radiator is well protected in a transparent plastic box, the radiator and the SSD are separately open, the user can choose whether to install the distributor radiator according to the situation, and also comes with a quick start installation manual and radiator installation instructions, teach you how to install this M.2 radiator, accessories including the screws of the radiator and the motherboard M.2 screws / nuts.
The state-oriented TiPro7000 1TB uses a double-sided design, and the previous generation of PC005's 1TB uses a single-sided design, which should be the relationship between the new master control scheme, the front of the SSD is composed of a master, a cache and two flash memory, and the back has a cache and two flash memory, the DRAM cache used is 512MB, so this TiPro7000 1TB is equipped with 1GB DRAM cache.
The main controller is the domestic InnoGrit Yingren Technology's Rainier IG5236, it adopts TSMC 12nm process manufacturing, 8 channel design, each channel bandwidth can reach 1200MT/s, can support the mainstream ONFI 4.1 and Toggle 4.0 MLC, TLC, QLC flash memory, support 4K LDPC ECC, the maximum capacity can be 16TB, based on Rainier The SSD of the IG5236 master can achieve continuous read speeds of more than 7GB/s and write speeds of more than 6GB/s, so that the SSD can reach the upper limit of pcIe 4 x4 interface as much as possible.
The flash memory was replaced by the latest third-generation 3D NAND, TLC particles of Yangtze River Storage, which has a total of four above, indicating that the capacity of a single flash memory is 256GB. The third generation of 3D flash memory of Yangtze River Storage adopts the new Xtacking 2.0 architecture, the peripheral circuit and the memory unit adopt independent manufacturing process, the CMOS circuit can choose a more advanced process, and the Xtacking 2.0 also brings better scalability to the 3D flash memory without increasing the chip area, and the flash memory is based on charge-trap (Charge-Trap) storage technology, which can be used at 1.2V The data transmission rate of 1.6Gbps is achieved at Vccq voltage, which is the highest in the industry.
The M.2 SSD radiator distributed by the state-oriented TiPro7000 needs to be assembled by itself, the two thermal pads also need to be pasted by the user themselves, the radiator body is made of aluminum, there is a good heat capacity that can absorb a lot of heat, the surface is also engraved with ripples to increase the heat dissipation area, the radiator surface is frosted, the texture is good, and the brand name of "Zhitai" is printed in the right test position. The heatsink is 5mm thick and can be mounted on the M.2 port next to the PCI-E x16 slot and does not block the installation of the graphics card.
Test platform with description
The test platform uses Intel Core i9-11900K processor, the motherboard is MSI's MAG Z590 TORPEDPO, installs dual-channel DDR4-3600 8GB*2 memory, the test disk will be installed on the M.2 interface of the directly connected CPU, and the system disk is hung on the M.2 port of the PCH, so that the test disk can play the best performance.
The test content includes CrystalDiskMark, PCMark 10, PCMark 8, PCMark 7, 3DMark disk test, as well as TxBENCH's full disk write, IOMeter discrete test, comparing the object Samsung's 980 Pro 1TB and the previous generation of conformal product PC005 1TB.
CDI information for the state-producing TiPro7000 1TB
CrystalDiskMark
First look at the peak performance test of CrystalDiskMark, at the queue depth of 8, the state-causing TiPro7000 1TB continuous read and write speed is 7153/5553 MB/s, the read speed did not reach the official nominal value, in fact, it is the difference caused by different test platforms, because we have tested the continuous read and write performance of the AMD platform is higher than the Intel platform, but the latency and random performance are worse. QD32's 4K random read and write IOPS is 231000/144000, the peak pure read pure write performance performance is better than the Samsung 980 Pro, mixed read and write continuous performance is slightly lower, random read is better, random write There is a gap, and the previous generation PCI-E 3.0 x4 PC005 compared with the continuous read speed directly doubled, continuous write is almost doubled.
Let's take a look at the real-life performance test of CrystalDiskMark, because the peak performance of the SSD is measured at a high queue depth, in fact, the queue depth of daily operation is only about 1 to 4, and the continuous read and write speed of the State-causing TiPro7000 1TB at the queue depth is 2390/3243 MB/s, and the hybrid read and write performance speed of 70/30 is 2496MB/s. In terms of latency, the random read delay is 49us, the random write delay is 11us, and the 70/30 mixed random read and write delay is 39us, and the random read delay is quite low, which is quite excellent in the M.2 SSD.
In fact, the continuous read speed of the state-causing TiPro7000 1TB is not good in QD1, but it can be increased to 4216MB/s in QD2, at this time it can play the advantages of PCI-E 4.0, and the continuous reading speed can reach the peak of 7150MB/s when QD4, because the queue depth of daily applications is 1~4 is more concentrated, so this reading speed is actually not bad, and the continuous write speed can reach the peak of 5500MB/s in QD2. And the speed of QD1 is not low.
PCMark 7 disk test
PCMark's disk test is played back with disk trajectories, which can better reflect the performance of the SSD in practice, and the original score of the State-oriented TiPro7000 in this test is 27029, which is closer to the Samsung 980 Pro, and the score is much better than that of the previous generation.
PCMark 8 disk test
The average transfer rate of the PCMark 8 disk tested state-generated TiPro7000 is 1027MB/s, which is much higher than that of the Samsung 980 Pro, which is more than 73% higher than its predecessor, and the performance increase is very large.
PCMark 10 disk test
PCMark 10 storage test in addition to giving the transmission rate of each SSD will also give the average delay, the average transmission rate of the state-oriented TiPro7000 is 587.87MB/s, the average delay is 46us, the transmission rate is much higher than the Samsung 980Pro, the average latency is also 15% lower, in fact, the difference between the two PCMark 10 storage performance scores is quite large, Samsung 980Pro is 3090 points, and the state-oriented TiPro7000 is 3660 points, The previous generation of PC005 Active, which adopted PCI-E 3.0, had only 1938 points.
3DMark storage testing
The 3DMark Storage Benchmark is a tool designed to test the gaming performance of today's latest PC storage devices, and like the PCMark 10 storage test, it is based on disk trace playback of real applications, focusing on practical, real-world game performance. The average transmission rate of the state-oriented TiPro 7000 is 643.59MB/s, the average latency is 49us, the performance is better than the Samsung 980Pro, and all the data has been greatly improved compared with the previous generation of PC005 with PCI-E 3.0, and the advantages brought by the new master and flash memory are still great.
TxBENCH full disk write test
This test is a full disk continuous write test of the tested disk without partitioning, which will fill the free space of the entire disk, and we can see a lot of information from this write speed curve.
The free space of the state-oriented TiPro7000 1TB is 23GB more than the 980 Pro 1TB, and its SLC Cache capacity is 317GB, which is basically the strategy of the full disk SLC Cache, which is completely different from the conservative strategy of the previous generation of PC005 Active, and the write speed of the zhidiPro7000 1TB is 5250MB/s when there is caching, and the average write speed of the 100GB interval is about 1431MB/s after the cache is used up This section is the original write speed of TLC, and the later interval is that the blank flash memory is completely exhausted and the speed of cleaning the SLC Cache and writing data at the same time, the average speed is about 780MB/s, and the average write speed of the overall cacheless is 835MB/s.
The above table is the state-oriented TiPro7000 1TB, Samsung 980Pro 1TB, titanium PC005 Active 1TB in the various stages of writing time, 10GB, 50GB, 100GB these intervals of the state-oriented TiPro7000 1TB and Samsung 980Pro 1TB have SLC Cache, the state-oriented TiPro7000 at this time the writing speed is slightly faster, so the writing time is also shorter, but there is no essential difference. Write 500GB, everyone's SLC Cache is used up, and the state-causing TiPro7000 is faster than the 980 Pro in this area.
summary
From the test results to see the state-causing TiPro7000 performance is quite strong, 7150/5500 MB / s continuous read and write performance is now in the SSD is absolutely first-class performance, and its latency is quite low, which means that it has a better corresponding speed, each playback test in which its performance is better than the Samsung 980Pro, indicating that the actual performance of tiPro7000 is quite excellent, in addition to the previous generation of PC005 Active was criticized SLC The problem of less Cache space has also been approached, and SLC Caches over 300GB usually can't be used up at all.
The state-oriented TiPro7000 is equipped with a larger M.2 heat sink, which can ensure that the SSD can be maintained at a lower temperature to ensure its stability, and this heat sink is separated from the SSD by default. After all, most motherboards are now equipped with M.2 heatsinks, SSD with this is the user's motherboard without M.2 heatsink or M.2 heatsink used up to prepare, of course, you want to take it to the PS5 host can also be, the performance of the TiPro 7000 and the size of the heatsink fully in line with Sony's standards.
Zhizhi TiPro7000 will open pre-sale at 00:00 on December 30, the first batch of 512GB and 1TB versions listed, both using double-sided design and equipped with radiators, larger capacity of 2TB is not in the debut list, but this new 2TB has better performance, Zhizhi TiPro7000 2TB version is expected to be listed in March, so stay tuned.