Intel Optane Memory Review

This review suggests vastly different results.

Optane Memory significantly reduces the time spent loading games over a hard drive alone. The Optane cache cut the start-up time for Doom in half versus a hard drive alone. That's a huge speed boost, and it suggests Optane Memory can blend a hard drive's capacity and an SSD's responsiveness for gamers on a budget. Grand Theft Auto V's startup and level-loading times also benefited from having a slice of Optane installed, though not quite as much as Doom's did.

Power users will also enjoy benefits from having a stick of Optane Memory installed. Adobe's Photoshop launched an incredible eight times faster with the support of Optane Memory than it did without, and Premiere Pro launched in about a third of the time with Optane enabled as it did without. If your time is money, Optane Memory will definitely let you spend more time working and less time waiting around, even more so than with our affordable SSD.

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