Samsung 990 Pro with PCI Express 5.0 appears in the database

During the second half of the year, several manufacturers, including Asus, Corsair and Crucial, plan to release new hard drives that use the high-speed PCI Express 5.0 interface. Most likely, these will be presented in connection with AMD’s launch of Ryzen 7000 series processors, where the exact support for PCI Express 5.0-based SSDs via the M.2 interface is one of the big news.

Now it looks like Korean electronics giant Samsung will also be joining the fall launch party. It’s the constant Twitter leaker Komachi (Across video card) who discovered information from the PCI-SIG database, where a recent device was registered. It’s about the Samsung 990 Pro, which then became a direct successor to the current 980 Pro with an upgraded four-lane PCI Express 5.0 connectivity.

Specifications regarding capabilities or performance are currently unknown, but with the move to PCI Express 5.0, there are theoretical possibilities to achieve transfer speeds of up to 16GB/s across four lanes. Now, however, it must be said that practical speeds are usually lower due to indirect costs In the communication bus, but it is not impossible to see sequential readings in the range of 13 to 14 GB / s.

Notably, Samsung is likely to be one of the few manufacturers that will initially supply the device with a proprietary storage controller. It appears that most other manufacturers who have announced units are based on a reference platform from circuit manufacturer Phison. However, the exact difference that can be expected in the actual performance remains to be seen in the fall when the devices launch.