- The PCIE 7.0 specification has been announced
- This is a new standard for even faster – incredibly fast – connections with PCIe components in your PC
- The standard is still in the first steps, and will not be there for a long time (PCIe 6.0 has not yet arrived, in fact)
PCIE connectivity (PCI Express) continues to get started and already a new specification for a future generation of PC has been announced, which is PCIe 7.0.
Videocardz reports that PCI-SIG, the organization that oversees the standard, announced PCIe 7.0 and boasts of the speed at which it will be. (Spoiler alert: really, very fast).
But wait a minute-are we still not on PCIe 5.0 these days? Well, yes, this is what a PC (peak) will take care of, and I will come back exactly what is happening with the development path of the PCI Express standard (and PCIe 6.0).
PCIe 7.0 is currently a specification which has just been sketched, and it will offer a data flow of 128 GT / S, which is double the speed of PCIe 6.0 (which itself doubled the transfer rate of PCIe 5.0).
With PCIe 7.0, you will get a handle of up to 16 PCIe (in a single slit) and up to 512 GB / s of bandwidth in total (in both directions). The PCIe routes are bidirectional (which means that the data can be sent in both directions) of communication lines connecting PCIE components – mainly the graphics card or SSD (but also other various boards) – to the motherboard.
Collectively, the PCIe routes facilitate all these key components operating on your PC (learn more here).
Thus, although much faster speeds for this communication are indeed a potentially important affair for the future, for the performance of GPUs and readers, we are very well turned to the future here – which means path down.
Analysis: time scales – and PCIe 8.0 appearing on the horizon
As I have already mentioned, we are on PCIe 5.0 at the moment. PCIe 6.0 was announced at the beginning of 2022, more than three years ago, and remains in development, although it now approaches the finish line – we can even see the first material that supports him arrive later this year (or at the start of the next one).
So, as you can imagine, we look towards the end of decade Before PCIe 7.0, really launches. Before this milestone, equipment manufacturers will work with the standard, development and testing of prototypes and will refine the final equipment for three or four years. And initially, this equipment will be used in quantum accounts, data centers and other demanding tasks – not consumer PCs.
Meanwhile, PCI-SIG confirmed that work on the concoration of the PCIe 8.0 standard have already started.
So, although everything is good, with these incoming standards that have queue and sound more and more quickly, what is the impact for consumers in the long term? Not much, frankly. Even the high -level and super costly examples of the best GPUs currently available do not yet push the limits of PCIe 5.0 – there is nothing faster, not even in the most flashy PC.
However, there are niche cases where older PCIe standards now hinder new graphics cards.
An example is the RTX 5060 Ti (or non -Ti) with 8 GB of Video RAM, which loses performance when it is in a PCIE 4.0 motherboard slit because this slower standard is not enough – and if your motherboard always uses PCIe 3.0, it is a world of pain. (For a detailed explanation of the reason why this GPU is problematic in this way, check here – RX 9060 XT of AMD is also retained by its 8 GB of VRAM).
Really, however, it is more absurd than everything (and frankly, more to do with decision -making and questionable configuration of these graphics cards in the first place). However, with ever heavier PCIE standards that rolled out inexorably towards us, in the future, even large aging PCs could better face all the questionable decisions that GPU manufacturers make them.
In addition, as recently discussed, it is important to advance PCIE specifications and keep it on the rush edge in terms of standardization maintenance for the connection of PC components.
