Although an SSD isn't going to give you a higher framerate in your favorite games, it will offer gamers an advantage over traditional hard drives. ... Also, load times to go from a game's menu into the game itself are faster when the game is installed on an SSD than when it installed on a hard drive.

Is SSD really needed for gaming?

' If you're having framerate issues, a solid state drive isn't what you need. ... The point of installing games on an SSD is the drastic reduction in load times, which occurs because the data transfer speed of SSDs (over 400 MB/s) is significantly higher than that of HDDs, which generally deliver under 170 MB/s.

Does SSD improve performance?

A SSD drive and a RAM upgrade will boost performance by up to 70%. ... We used four scenarios to find out how much a RAM upgrade or a new SSD drive improves the system operating speed.