Motion control is facing an increasing popularity in the present research activities. Due to the expected wide spread-ing of motion control applications it can be predicted that the advancements in the field electric motor drives will have a high level of influence on the new results in the field of motion control. The synchronous reluctance motor drives mean an excellent and yet cost-effective solution for actuators in motion control applications. In this article the direct torque control with space vector modulation (DTC-SVM) is analysed as a possible candidate for synchronous reluc-tance motor motion control applications. Its torque-control performance is investigated in the function of torque-control sample time and a comparison of the torque-ripples is made with other torque-control algorithms by an FFT-analysis.