Intel and Samsung’s Demo Shows Off PCIe 5.0 SSD Reaching Speeds Up to 13GBps

Last Updated on January 3, 2022 by Anu Joy

Just as CES 2022 is set to gather steam this week, Intel employee Ryan Shrout gave everyone a sneak peek into Samsung’s new enterprise-class PM1743 PCIe 5.0 SSD via Twitter. Shrout revealed that he was going to save the PCIE 5.0 demo for CES 2022, but ended up sharing it with everyone on the popular microblogging platform instead.

Here’s what Shrout used to demo Samsung’s new PCIe 5.0 SSD—a 12th-gen (Alder Lake) Intel Core i9-12900k CPU, an Nvidia RTX 3080 graphics card, and an Asus Z690 motherboard. The video showed that the SSD was able to reach speeds of around 13.8GB/s.

Here’s what Jim Pappas, Director of Technology Initiatives at Intel had to say about the collaboration:

“Intel has been working with Samsung to test Samsung’s newest PCIe NVMe SSD, the PM1743. Together, we have jointly resolved complicated technical issues encountered with PCIe 5.0 during this initial evaluation period. The performance potential of Gen5 is truly impressive. In the near future, we strongly believe that PCIe Gen5 systems with high-speed NVMe SSDs will have the ability to transform applications such as AI/ML and high-performance databases”.

Samsung PM1743 PCIe 5.0 SSD Features, Launch Date

The PCIe 5.0 enterprise edition is slated for a 2022 release, in the first quarter. The SSD is said to feature capacities ranging from 1.92TB to a whopping 15.36TB. It is reported to come in form factors of 2.5 inches as well as 3 inches. The Samsung PM1743 PCIe 5.0 SSD makes use of a proprietary controller to support the PCIe 5.0 standard to achieve high speeds matching the requirements of data centers. Samsung claims that the PM1743 has approximately 30 percent better power efficiency (up to 608 MB/s per watt) when compared to its predecessor, the PCIe 4.0. This is purported to lower server operating costs.

Furthermore, Samsung claims that the PCIe 5.0 SSD will support a sequential read speed of up to 13GB/s and a random read speed of 2,500k input/output operations per second (IOPS). This will translate to 1.8 to 1.7 times faster speeds when compared to devices with PCIe 4.0 on board.