Samsung 990 Pro supports PCI Express 5 and pops up at PCI-SIG

PCI-SIG, the organization that oversees the PCIe standard, has listed new SSDs from Samsung that support the 5.0 standard, including the 990 Pro M.2. Earlier this month, some model numbers of Samsung SSDs also surfaced, which are presumably also of the 990 Pro.

On the PCI-SIG website recently showed four product IDs of Samsung SSDs that meet the PCIe 5.0 standard. One is the 990 Pro M.2 which appears to be getting a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. This not yet officially announced SSD was probably also noticed last month with Korean authorities and from the model numbers, MZ-V9P1T0 and MZ-V9P2T0, it was deduced that the 990 Pro will come in a 1TB variant and a 2TB variant.

It is currently unclear what read and write speeds the 990 Pro SSDs will achieve. Tech site Wccftech notes that Samsung’s first PCIe 5.0 SSD for servers, the PM1743, achieves 13GB/s sequential read speeds. The sequential write speed of that SSD is 6.6GB/s.

Samsung 990 Pro SSD on PCI-SIG website