Tech Benchmark: NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 -vs- SATA SSD When I switched to Ryzen last month, I made sure to pick a motherboard with a PCIe M.2 slot. I wanted to replace my SATA SSD with the newest player in town: NVMe. In this article, we will be comparing: TEAMGROUP MP34 M.2 NVMe 512GB SSDADATA SP580 2.