If you're looking for the best SSD for gaming right now, then a PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive is your best bet, with speeds of up to 7000MB/s. Since we're nearing the theoretical maximum speeds of 8GB/s in its x4 M.2 format, however, we're already looking ahead towards PCIe 5.0 technology before PCIe 4.0 even becomes standard.
PCIe 5.0 has the potential to double the bandwidth over the previous generation with up to 16GB/s read and write speeds. Better yet, the new tech could be sitting in the best gaming PC in just a few years time, according to Tom's Hardware.
Manufacturer Silicon Motion has announced that 'enterprise-grade' (read: not for consumers) SSD controllers with a PCIe 5.0 interface will be released in 2022. With PCIe 4.0, there was a slight gap between the standard moving from commercial applications like servers to consumer tech such as gaming PCs, and we'd expect the same to apply with PCIe 5.0, so it could be a year or two until we see consumer-grade PCIe 5.0 drives hitting the market.
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