Hi, author here. I tested with what I have, and with what I currently use to work and test with that is in the general price/performance range. If that isn't obvious, then I have to apologize and make an explicit note of that.
My u59 ships with SATA SSDs, as it happens.
I do have an Intel i7 13th Gen with PCIe 4.0 NVMes (and several modern Macs), but that would be so far off base (and so expensive) that it isn't even comparable. The i7-6700 is much closer in "value", if you will.
However, you are mis-reading the way the OnnxStream test works. It is still CPU-bound for the most part.
My u59 ships with SATA SSDs, as it happens.
I do have an Intel i7 13th Gen with PCIe 4.0 NVMes (and several modern Macs), but that would be so far off base (and so expensive) that it isn't even comparable. The i7-6700 is much closer in "value", if you will.
However, you are mis-reading the way the OnnxStream test works. It is still CPU-bound for the most part.