PCIe 4.0 Speeds on a Price range
The joy within the shopper SSD house just lately has understandably been on the Gen 5 entrance. Nevertheless, cooling necessities have made it tough for distributors to deliver efficient M.2 NVMe Gen 5 SSDs to the market. In that context, it seems that Gen 4 M.2 SSDs will proceed to have a for much longer runway than was beforehand estimated. As a way to higher serve that market phase, Silicon Movement is introducing a brand new product of their PCIe 4.0-capable NVMe SSD controller lineup. The corporate’s roadmap just isn’t a lot of a secret, as we do anticipate their Gen 5 shopper controllers to land in This autumn 2023 – in truth, an finish product based mostly on it from ADATA was already demonstrated by ADATA on the 2023 CES. Nevertheless, at this time marks the official launch date for the SM2268XT – the third-generation DRAM-less Gen 4 SSD controller meant to play within the entry-level phase by way of pricing, however transfer to the excessive finish by way of efficiency .
The important thing updates within the SM2268XT over the SM2267XT and SM2269XT are the rise within the per-channel knowledge fee from 1600 MT/s to 3200 MT/s and assist for the newest 2xx layer 3D TLC (in addition to QLC) from completely different flash distributors. The brand new controller additionally brings in assist for some NVMe 2.0 options (in comparison with NVMe 1.4 within the SM2267XT and SM2269XT). Just like the SM2269XT, the LDPC engine codeword dimension within the SM2268XT can also be 4KB (in comparison with 2KB within the SM2267XT). The transfer to a 12nm course of additionally brings in higher energy effectivity.
THE SM2268XT shall be competing in opposition to in-house controllers from Western Digital (such because the one used within the WD_BLACK SN770), and the upcoming Phison E21T in addition to InnoGrit’s RainierQX IG5220. The claimed efficiency numbers throughout all 4 corners for the SM2268XT are main in its class.
| Silicon Movement Consumer/Client Gen 4 NVMe SSD Controllers | |||||
| SM2264 | SM2267 | SM2267XT | SM2269XT | SM2268XT | |
| Market Section | Excessive-Finish Client | Mainstream Client | |||
| Manufacturing Course of |
12nm | 28nm | 12nm | ||
| Arm CPU Cores | 4x ARM Cortex R8 | 2x ARM Cortex R5 | 2x ARM Cortex R8 | ||
| Error Correction | 4KB LDPC | 2KB LDPC | 4KB LDPC | ||
| DRAM Assist | DDR4, LPDDR4(X) | DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR3, DDR4, LPDDR4 | None / HMB | ||
| Host Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | ||||
| NAND Channels, Interface Velocity | 8ch 1600 MT/s |
8ch 1200 MT/s |
4ch 1200 MT/s |
4ch 1600 MT/s |
4ch 3200 MT/s |
| CEs per Channel | 8 | 8 | 4 | ||
| Sequential Learn | 7500 MB/s | 3900 MB/s | 3500 MB/s | 5100 MB/s | 7400 MB/s |
| Sequential Write | 7000 MB/s | 3500 MB/s | 3000 MB/s | 4800 MB/s | 6500 MB/s |
| 4KB Random Learn IOPS | 1.3M | 500K | 500K (HMB) / 200K (No HMB) | 900K | 1.2M |
| 4KB Random Write IOPS | 1.2M | 500K | 500K | 900K | 1.2M |
The corporate signifies that the SM2268XT is at present sampling to its key clients and the launch of SSDs based mostly on it must be imminent. We anticipate the standard suspects equivalent to ADATA to announce SSDs based mostly on the brand new controller quickly.
