Comparison of Steam download rates on PC versus Rogal's Ally X
Comparison of Steam download rates on PC versus Rogal's Ally X
my rog ally x handles high speeds effortlessly, but my gaming rig with a z690g motherboard, samsung 980 pro nvme ssd, and a 2.5Gbps connection is only achieving about 60MB/s during Steam downloads. I verified the connection speed is indeed 2.5Gbps, yet it doesn’t sustain 1Gbps performance. What might be affecting this?
The system includes an i7 12700 processor, a z690g gaming WiFi motherboard, a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD, and Kingston Fury DDR5 RAM at 5200MHz featuring Sapphire Nitro. A 7900X with 800W gold-rated power supply is connected via Ethernet offering 2.5Gbps. The quiet loop AIO is installed. Download speeds for Rogal X Steam are around 1Gbps, and connection tests reach approximately 2.5Gbps on the PC. The same games download at roughly 50-60MB/s initially, then consistently surpass 100MB/s, though this remains stable alongside disk performance.
You have a 1gb/s internet connection provided by your ISP? Are you starting downloads on the PC and then transferring to the ally? Since Steam enables file sharing by default, it will move a game from one device to another without compression. A game being downloaded must still be unpacked by the PC, which is why the download speeds can fluctuate often.
which disk are we referring to? Since you have an SSD on PC1 and an NVMe drive in the ROG Ally, it might seem like it's influencing the speed shown in Steam because writing data faster can make downloads appear quicker—possibly just a visual effect. I own a Gen 5 NVMe PCIe card (TEAMGROUP T-Force Z540), but my network won’t exceed 7MB/s. When I install and download on this drive, speeds jump to around 9MB/s, which is unrealistic given my 200Mbit internet connection (real speed maxes out at about 7MB/s).
This scenario might happen as well. If a Steam game is installed on PC1 and you download it on PC2, performance could improve because PC1 acts as a cache, boosting speed. Download rates will increase since files transfer locally rather than over the internet. Speed depends on your router’s internal network and the PC’s maximum card speed. Deleting or shutting down PC1 would restore realistic download speeds on PC2, as it wouldn’t recognize the same game installed there.
I powered off the PC and installed a game from Rogally X that I hadn’t previously set up. It downloads quickly at 100MB/s, especially with NVMe storage. I’m also using an Xbox with faster download speeds than Steam, possibly indicating Steam’s behavior is different on my machine.
They appear to download at 1.8Gbps, which is significantly quicker than Steam. It looks like the Steam problem is mainly affecting my PC.