GIGABYTEone of the leading companies in high-performance consumer-oriented hardware playing gamesshe announced AORUS Gen5 10000An SSD with an NVMe interface and in the M.2 format capable of exceeding 12,400 megabytes per second in read operations (or at least this was revealed by a test performed with CrystakDiskMark).

The AORUS Gen5 10000 is supposed to be a significant leap in quality compared to the AORUS Gen4 7000 series, which relied on PCIe 4 instead of version 5. In addition, GIGABYTE itself confirmed that the performance is improved by 55%, which is not bad at all.

It is no coincidence that the new SSD from GIGABYTE bears the number 10,000 in its name. AORUS UK posted on their Twitter the result of a test performed with CrystakDiskMark. The the read speed was 12,453.90 megabytes per second, while the write speed was 10,074.50 megabytes.

In short, the number 10,000 refers to the fact that the data storage device is capable of reaching 10,000 megabytes per second in both read and write operations, but achieving this amount of data transfer can depend on factors such as the motherboard used, which should also have support for PCIe 5.0 and temperatures.

In terms of storage, the AORUS Gen5 10000 variants going from 1TB to 4TB. They are supported by a Phison PS5026-E26 controller, TLC 3D NAND Flash memory chips and LPDDR4 cache.

M.2 factor NVMe storage capable of reaching these speeds can only be oriented towards devices and the latest generations, and so will the GIGABYTE AORUS Gen5 10000 It officially supports Intel’s Alder Lake and Raptor Lake generations and AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7000.

It is important to note that this is not the fastest SSD offered by GIGABYTE. The brand already announced another SSD model last year, the AORUS XTREME, which was able to exceed 28 GB/s using a PCIe 4 x16 slot as an interface.