Initially, the XPG series consisted of simple and compact solid state machines without frills and pretentiousness. But when the SSD market really flared up, the SPECTRIX line expanded noticeably. Realizing that there were too many sub-series, A-Data divided them into several separate lines - low-cost XPG SX without heatsinks, fast XPG GAMMIX on the PCI-E 4.0 bus, and XPG SPECTRIX modder drives with RGB / ARGB illumination.


In many ways, the GAMMIX and SPECTRIX models repeat each other. The difference lies in the fact that, unlike the Gammix trims, the representatives of the XPG SPECTRIX series are equipped with colorful heatsinks with LEDs. Moreover, it can be either a relatively simple RGB system or a rather complex addressable lighting that looks really cool in an open stand or case with a transparent side door. Moreover, the backlight is friendly with most popular synchronization systems - Asus Aura, Gigabyte Fusion, MSI Mystic Light and ASRock Polychrome. That is, you don't have to mess around with the illumination settings, the motherboard software will do everything by itself.

From a technical point of view, the XPG SPECTRIX memory sticks are slightly inferior to the XPG GAMMIX models. They are also M.2, NVMe-enabled, and based on select 3D TLC NAND memory, but even 2021 models still run PCI-E 3.0. Therefore, unlike GAMMIX drives, their linear copy and write speeds usually hit the ceiling of this bus and do not exceed 3000 - 3500 MB / s. However, this is definitely not a reason to be sad, because it is still 5-6 times faster than a regular SATA SSD.