{"id":597079,"date":"2023-01-13T05:49:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/directstorage-benchmark-shows-massive-transfer-speed-improvements\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T05:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T11:49:15","slug":"directstorage-benchmark-shows-massive-transfer-speed-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/directstorage-benchmark-shows-massive-transfer-speed-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"DirectStorage benchmark shows massive transfer speed improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why it matters:<\/strong> Microsoft’s DirectStorage API promises to bring PCs ultra-fast load times akin to what Xbox Series console and PlayStation 5 users have experienced for two years. As the first game supporting DirectStorage prepares to launch, a benchmark shows real performance gains on retail hardware. <\/p>\n

Tests from PC Games Hardware show<\/a> that Microsoft’s DirectStorage API can help NVMe SSDs load assets significantly faster than SATA SSDs. They also offer the enormous advantages of GPU-based decompression over CPU decompression.<\/p>\n

The site ran Microsoft’s publicly available<\/a> Avocado-loading DirectStorage demo on a SATA SSD, a PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD, and a PCIe 4.0 NVMe. It also compared decompression speeds between three GPUs and a CPU –an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, an Intel Arc A770, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080, and a 5.2GHz Intel i9-12900K.<\/p>\n

The chart below displays the transfer rate of each hardware configuration in GB\/s, showing the mean result out of five tests. The NVMe SSDs ran several times faster than the SATA SSD here, and PCIe 4.0 had a slight advantage over PCIe 3.0. Possibly strangest of all is that the A770 outperforms the RX 7900 XT and 4080 in GPU decompression despite being in a lower weight class for game performance.<\/p>\n

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Screenshots from the demo demonstrate the difference between CPU and GPU decompression. Some show a few gigabytes of assets taking between one and a half seconds and five seconds to load, with between 30 percent and 100 percent CPU utilization. Others show the same assets loading in around half a second with less than five percent CPU utilization, indicating the GPU has taken over the job.<\/p>\n

The demo shows promising early results for hardware outside of Microsoft’s labs. Furthermore, they demonstrate a huge turnaround from 2020 tests showing that recent games don’t fully utilize the bandwidth advantages of NVMes over SATA drives.<\/p>\n

However, loading a bunch of avocados isn’t the same as loading a 3D game environment. Those interested won’t need to wait long to test DirectStorage’s real-world performance. The feature will debut in Square Enix’s Forspoken, which launches<\/a> on January 24.<\/p>\n

At GDC in March, Square Enix claimed that DirectStorage lets Forspoken load new scenes and environments in less than two seconds on an NVMe SSD compared to several seconds on a SATA SSD and almost half a minute on an HDD. Microsoft designed the new API for use on Windows 11. Due to its legacy storage stack, Windows 10 systems will only see limited benefits.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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