Although PCIe 4.0 SSDs and other devices have only been on the market for a few years, we have yet to integrate PCIe 7.0 components into our gaming PCs. And if you think NVMe drives are fast enough now, look forward to the new PCI Express specification. to take read and write speeds to new heights with eight times the bandwidth of the current specification.
PCI-SIG, the organization responsible for developing the PCI Express specifications, announced the release date for PCIe 7.0 at its 2022 developer conference. In 2025, the new standard promises to deliver speeds of 512 GB/s (that is, gigabytes ).bytes) on sixteen channels.
While that sounds impressive on its own, you’ll be able to match the full bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 with just two lanes and PCIe 5.0 with four. This will only benefit servers and supercomputers for now, but it will ultimately influence the design of the best graphics cards and SSDs for gaming.
We currently have PCIe 5.0 GPUs and drives, and AMD Ryzen 7000 processors will be the first processors to support this specification when they launch later this year.
Source : PC Gamesn
