PCIe Gen5 SSDs are delaying their arrival in the market for various reasons, both commercial and technical. We expect some news for Computex 2023, the main technology fair in Asia, which will start in Taiwan in a few weeks.

You already know that interface PCI Express 5.0Thanks to the new Intel Raptor Lake and AMD Ryzen 7000 processor platforms, it can power components such as graphics cards of the future (next generation from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel) or new SSDs that should already be on the market. but that they were certainly late with selling the Gen4 in stock as well as having to address the increase in temperature and noise of the units.

There are already models as good as this on the market Corsair MP700 which we had the opportunity to analyze in depth or GIGABYTE AORUS. However, industry giants (Samsung, WD and Kingston) and other integrators are missing. One of them has just announced its solutions for the Taiwan trade fair.

This is Viper Gaming, the high-performance division of Patriot, announcing the debut of the PV553 in Gen5. It is an SSD in the M.2-2280 format. The supplier of the 3D NAND flash memory used was not mentioned, whether it will have additional cache or the manufacturer of the controller.

Yes, performance is on offer and it’s the highest we’ve seen yet, as it promises sequential data transfer in read-from mode 12,400 Mbytes per second and 11,800 Mbytes per second in typing mode.

The Patriot SSD comes standard with sa special cooling system with active ventilation (small fan). Remember that the M.2 format, which is 100% used by all SSDs connected to PCIe, offers great advantages due to its compact size, which allows it to be installed on desktops and laptops. However, the increase in power as the interface went up in generation has subsequently caused an increase in temperatures that must be controlled.

Therefore, to obtain maximum performance and avoid operational problems, it is mandatory to cool them, at least for the passive coolers that some manufacturers supply and which are also included in motherboards (mid-range and higher) in the new Gen5 generation. We will tell you more. Don’t miss the coverage of Computex 2023 that we collect in the corresponding tag.