- The PCIE 7.0 specification has been announced
- It is a new standard for even faster, incredibly fast connections, with pcie components on its PC
- However, the standard is still in the early stages, and it will not be here for a long time (PCIE 6.0 has not yet arrived, in fact)
PCIE connectivity (PCI Express) continues to advance and a new specification for a future PCs generation, which is PCIE 7.0 has already been announced.
Videocardz reports that PCI-SIG, the organization that supervises the standard, has announced PCIe 7.0 and boasts how fast it will be. (Spoiler Alert: Really, very fast).
But wait a minute, aren’t we still on PCIE 5.0 these days? Well, yes, that is what a PC (avant -garde) will admit, and I will return exactly to what is happening with the development route of the PCI Express standard (and PCIE 6.0) momentarily.
PCIE 7.0 is currently a specification that has just been outlined, and will offer a 128gt/s data speed, which is twice the speed of PCIE 6.0 (which in itself doubled the transfer rate of PCIE 5.0).
With PCIE 7.0, you will obtain support for up to 16 PCIE lanes (in a single slot) and up to 512 GB/s bandwidth in total (in both directions). The PCIE lanes are bidirectional communication lines (which means that the data can be sent in any direction) of the communication that hook the PCIE components, mainly the graphics card or the SSD (but also other miscellaneous plates), to the motherboard.
Collectively, the PCIE lanes facilitate all these key components that work on their PC (read more about this here).
So, although the much faster speeds for that communication are in fact a potentially important problem for the future, for the performance of the GPUs and the units mainly, we are looking a lot at the future, which means that that is, that is, that is, that is, shape On the line.
Analysis: Time castrals – and PCIE 8.0 that appear on the horizon
As I mentioned, we are on PCIE 5.0 at this time. PCIE 6.0 was announced in early 2022, more than three years ago, and still remains in development, although it is now approaching the finish line; We can even see the first hardware that supports it arrives at the end of this year (or later).
So, as you can imagine, we are looking at the end of the decade Before Pcie 7.0 actually present. Before that milestone, hardware manufacturers will work with the standard, develop and test prototypes, and refine the final hardware for three or four years. And initially, that hardware will be used in quantum computing, data centers and other demanding tasks, not consumption PCs.
And in the meantime, PCI-SIG has confirmed that the work to invent the PCIE 8.0 standard has already begun.
So, while all this is very good, with these incoming standards that align and smile faster, what is the impact for consumers in the closest term? Not much, frankly. Even the first level and super expensive examples of the best available GPUs are not pressing the limits of PCIE 5.0: there is no need for anything faster, even in the most striking PC.
However, there are niche cases in which the oldest PCIE standards are now hindering some new graphics cards.
A case in question is the RTX 5060 TI (or not you) with 8 GB of video RAM, which loses some performance when it is in a slot for the PCIE 4.0 motherboard because that slower standard is not enough, and if its motherboard still uses PCIE 3.0, that is a world of performance pain. (To obtain a detailed explanation of why this GPU is problematic in this way, see here: RX 9060 XT of AMD is also retained by its 8 GB of VRM).
Really, however, this is something atypical more than anything (and, frankly, rather than to do with questionable decision making and the configuration of these graphics cards first). Even so, with the increasingly fast Pcie standards that are inexorably surrounded by us, in the future, even aging consumption PCs could better face the doubtful decisions that GPU manufacturers throw them.
In addition, as recently discussed, the PCIE specification is advanced and keep it a lot in the cutting edge is important in terms of maintenance of the standardization for the connection of the components of the PC.
