Yes, that's burned into my own mind too.
But "something" has changed. I can read 5 GB from both devices with the same speed:
~# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zero bs=1M count=5000
5000+0 records in
5000+0 records out
5242880000 bytes (5.2 GB, 4.9 GiB) copied, 8.25407 s, 635 MB/s
~# dd...