DirectStorage It is a technology that we have talked about on different occasions, and that It will allow to improve the performance of games by being able to transfer data that the GPU needs directly from the SSD drives of the computerwithout going through the processor. Above all, this reduces access latency, something very important when said accesses are continuous.
However, as is often the case with new technology launches, sometimes marketing campaigns try to get us to buy new products without paying much attention to existing products. something that has happened with SSD drives optimized for DirectStorage.
In this case, Phison has had to go out and explain that despite the arrival of “DirectDrive-optimized” SSDs, current unoptimized drives will work just as well with this featureso it does not make much sense to pay extra for them, as well as rush to replace our current one if it is fast enough to take advantage of it.
In any case, we should start seeing games with DirectStorage on PC from 2023, so it will not be until then that we will be able to compare the performance between storage unitswhether the drives are optimized for this new technology or not.
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Jordi Bercial
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