- PCIe 6.0 soon arriving on AMD platforms but not for consumers
- Most users will need the speed of PCIe 6.0 that much later
- Enterprise and AI will adopt PCIe 6.0 long before desktop and laptop PCs
AMD plans to take charge of PCIe 6.0 from 2026, but the SSD based on the standard should not appear in the general public PCs so early.
The CEO of Silicon Motion, Wallace C. Kuo, said Tom material That PC manufacturers and flea sellers simply do not yet push for technology.
“You will not see any PCIe Gen6 [solutions] Until 2030, “said Kuo.” The OEM PCs have very little interest in PCIe 6.0 at the moment – they don’t even want to talk about it. AMD and Intel don’t want to talk about it. “”
The PCIe 4.0 speeds are mostly
This delay is not a surprise – because although PCIe 6.0 offers up to 32 GB / s of bandwidth on an X4 connection, the complexity and the cost of support at this speed are much higher than for PCIe 5.0.
EIA business systems and infrastructure, on the other hand, are the place where PCIe 6.0 will land first. These use cases can justify the need for faster interconnections, as they count strongly on the massive movement of massive data quickly and reliably.
For everyone, including players and content creators, PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 offer more than enough speed.
It should be noted that there are very few laptops shipped with PCIe 5.0 SSDS. Most PCs use PCIe 4.0 today, and it’s always fast enough for almost all traditional workloads. The real bottlenecks of which consumers face are generally not linked to the bandwidth.
Technical obstacles are also part of the problem. As PCIE speeds are increasing, physical distance signals can shrink considerably.
A presentation by Astera Labs claims that traces of copper on a motherboard can reach up to 11 inches at PCIe 4.0 speeds, but that falls to only 3.4 inches with PCIe 6.0. This is a real problem in desktop computers using rising column cards or complex routing, especially for graphics cards.
Profitors can solve this problem in servers, but they are too expensive for most consumer versions.
Makeing the mother cards compatible with PCIe 6.0 also means more PCB layers and better quality materials, which increases costs. For the moment, additional additional expenses and print simply do not make sense for most users.
The SSDs PCIe 5.0 are likely to remain the high -end option for desktop PCs for the rest of the decade. The storage industry could be ready for the next step, but consumers will probably do not need or will not wish before 2030.
