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The graphics card factor should also be taken into account: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 has very high performance – it would be interesting to see the results with more modest models, as well as models from AMD and Intel. Tests were run at 4K resolution, for example, and it’s possible that experiments at 1080p or 1440p would show more noticeable discrepancies. The drop in GPU performance with DirectStorage enabled is likely to be expected, although it’s hard to say what factors most influenced this effect. The highest frame rate was achieved with a SATA drive, the M.2 connector resulted in a 10% drop in rate. For the purity of the experiment, we tried an SSD with SATA and two in M.2 format, although the models are not specified. For testing, we used a system with an Intel Core i9-12900K processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, and the game launched in 4K resolution. However, the PC Games Hardware resource decided to evaluate the impact of DirectStorage on frame rates in the Square Enix project, which was the first to receive support for this solution. Recently, the loading efficiency of DirectStorage was demonstrated using the example of the game Forspoken – the actual efficiency in each case depends on the configuration of the machine, but the result is obvious.

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