Speaking of the first domestic 3A game "Black Myth: Wukong", it can be said that it has become popular all over the world, and even Shanxi, where it was filmed, has ushered in a wave of "pouring wealth and wealth", and it is reasonable that a new round of machine building is coming. Surprisingly, the hardware requirements for this game are not very demanding, and there are even many players with graphics cards such as the GTX 1060.
However, the volume of this game has reached the level of the head 3A, and the volume of the game folder is as high as 128GB, which is a bit tight for the SSD in terms of capacity and performance, and it may take a long time to load, and the complex terrain will be stuck, which will affect the game experience. So, how much is the difference in performance between the flagship and entry-level SSDs when playing Black Myth: Wukong? Then only the actual measurement will know.
The three products tested this time are all from the internationally renowned storage brand Seagate, namely the mid-range PCIe4.0 product Seagate Coldplay Fire Cuda520, the PCIe4.0 flagship Coldplay FireCuda 530 and the PCIe5.0 Coldplay FireCuda 540.
All three products use the standard M.2 2280 specification, of which Coldplay 520 adopts DRAMLess architecture, with maximum read and write speeds of 5000MB/s and 4850MB/s; The Coldplay 530 is equipped with a separate DRAM cache with a maximum read and write speed of 7300MB/s and 6900MB/s. The Coldplay 540 is also equipped with a dedicated DRAM cache with a maximum read and write speed of up to 10,000MB/s.
Routinely release our testbed before testing.
In order to give you a preliminary impression, let's start a round of benchmark tests on the three SSDs, and we can see that the actual sequential read and write speeds of the Coldplay 520 are 5084.02MB/s and 4925.13MB/s. The actual sequential read and write speeds of the Coldplay 530 reached 7349.51MB/s and 7056.13MB/s. The actual sequential read and write speeds of the Coldplay 540 reach an astonishing 10,089.6MB/s and 10,173.88MB/s. It can be seen that the performance difference between the three SSDs is still relatively tiered.
Grab an appetizer before your meal and use the Final Fantasy XIV: Dawn Moon Benchmark to simulate the differences between the three SSDs in terms of gaming. The results show that it takes 9.036 seconds for Coldplay 520 to load all scenes, 8.25 seconds for Coldplay 530, and 7.831 seconds for Coldplay 540.
Finally, there is the testing session of "Black Myth: Wukong". The loading of this game is divided into two stages, the first stage is to display the "Game Science" logo from the black screen, and the second stage is to click "Continue to play" to display the game screen, in order to ensure the accuracy of the results, we all use the same scene in the Huangfengling map.
The final results show that the total time taken by Coldplay 520 is 44 seconds, the total time taken by Coldplay 530 is 37.47 seconds, and the total time taken by Coldplay 540 is 34.86 seconds.
In addition to the lack of performance of graphics cards and CPUs, the biggest possibility is that the poor speed of mechanical hard disks cannot keep up with the number of maps and models that burst instantly, so high-performance solid-state drives have also become a must-have equipment for professional players, and for ordinary players, mainstream performance products are often the most suitable.
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