Question Recommended (Best) PCI 4 NvME

[TopDownDriver]

Building an ULTIMATE PC for a customer. Which PCI4 NVMe is currently THE BEST in class? Paired with Threadripper.

 

[aigomorla]

best in class for what?
there are a lot of best in class.

And are you limiting yourself to only M.2 or is U2 also on the table.

For gaming the best in price / performance ratio is a Intel P4500 4TB which you can find on ebay new for roughly 400-475 dollars.
4TB of NVMe, but its on a U2 format, so you need a U2 adapter for your M.2 port and you also need a U2 cable.
But 4TB should keep your game drives happy, and not full since games are being bloated now a days ranging from 50-150gb each title.

But you fail to ask what your going to do with the NVMe.
IF money is no object, and your going full bling bling, nothing is faster then the Intel P905 series, but again, the price to performance ratio is not even on a reasonable level, that your probably better off getting a sammy 970 PRO and missing out on that extra 4k speed the 905p has.

 

[TopDownDriver]

Currently, most all NVMe drives do not take advantage of PCI 4.

I am looking for the best M.2 NVMe drives to use in a new video editing PC aimed at very high-end 8k processing.

 

[Shmee]

If you are talking m.2 PCIe 4 consumer drives, AFAIK all of them are roughly similar currently, using the Phison E16 controller.

 

[Ranulf]

Interesting, mobo makers are still putting u.2 ports on some threadripper models. At least they're more useful than sata express was. Still never understood why Gigabyte put a u.2 on my x370 mobo though. $400 for the intel 4tb isn't too bad.

PCI-E 4.0 info that might help OP: Derbauer tests several on x570 boards.