Corsair is teasing its first PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD

With two more platforms supporting the PCIe 5.0 standard coming over the next few months, Corsair has decided it was time to start teasing its fastest SSD to date, the MP700. This will be Corsair's first PCIe 5.0 SSD and the company is aiming high, with plans to reach 10,000 MB/s read speeds. 

At the moment, Corsair's fastest SSD is the MP600 Pro XT. However, that should soon change once the manufacturer releases the MP700. In the graph below, you can see the sequential read/write speed comparison between the MP700 and two previous-gen Corsair SSDs. The MP700 is also confirmed to play nicely with AMD's upcoming AM5 platform.

According to the comparison chart, the MP700 will top at 10GBps in sequential reads and 9.5GBps in sequential writes. Moreover, we know it will be based on the PCIe 5.0 x4 and NVMe 2.0 standards, and use an M.2 socket to connect to a system. Besides that, no other information about the MP700 SSD is known.

Considering the 1TB model of the MP600 XT goes for £128, expect the MP700 to be even more expensive. As for a release date, we speculate it will become available after AMD launches the 600-series motherboards and Ryzen 7000 chips. According to the latest rumours, that should happen in September.

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KitGuru says: Although the MP700 will be faster than PCIe 4.0 SSDs, it's still far from the theoretical limit of the PCIe 5.0 standard. So, expect even faster SSDs later down the line.

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