AMD 1090FX, 1070 Chipset Info Leaked; Missing PCIe 3.0

[JonnyDough]

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/stats.php

Check out the stats on "interface". I believe this is recorded from just this year, but I can't be sure.

 

[SteelCity1981]

[citation][nom]iam2thecrowe[/nom]They are supposed to be......but it is not always the case. I had trouble finding a card that would work in my 1.0 motherboard and many others will say the same. Look people, you can chose a slow ass AMD cpu and motherboard with pcie-2, or you can get a fast intel cpu with pcie-3. There is only really one smart choice there. this chipset does NOTHING to help AMD.[/citation]


Then that's a BIOS problem not the gpu problem.

 

[GaMEChld]

I think people are understating the importance of PCI-E revisions. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the southbridge to CPU lanes use PCI-E lanes (which is why a lot of time you see having a large amount of SATA ports limits the PCI-E slot bandwidth, and maximum slot bandwidth requires fewer SATA ports or the inclusion of a 3rd party SATA controller to handle the extra load.)

In that case, an upgrade to PCI-E bandwidth will mean more headroom for the slots, sure, but also more bandwidth for the southbridge too and less bottlenecks or connectivity sacrifices. Also, don't forget that the next video card generation will be a jump to 28nm, which people are speculating to have a very nice performance jump. We will be putting those PCI-E slots to work, make no mistake. Maybe single cards will get by with no penalty, but I think crossfire/SLI users will be wanting either those PCI-E 3.0 x8/x8 slots or PCIE 2.0 x16/x16 slots. Anything less might fall short.

 

[geekapproved]

It will support pci-e 3.0, trust me.

 

[gionder]

What do people have become these days? Are you so fucking shy as to put a damn "@" and the person who you wish to speak to? People talk like they'd want to make indirect contact. That freaking pisses me off! Talk to your subject's face like a real living person he/she is! Have pride in your balls or your tits! Show you don't fear the one being talked about! Darn it, parents can't teach their children these days...

 

[hannibal]

Well usb3 is more important than PCI3 at this moment anyway. So most propably we will see PCI3 in 1190 FX. Not big deal. More important is that they can improve Bulldoser single threath speed to much better level... Hard, but not impossible. When thinking Bulldoser architecture, it may never be at IB level in that sentense, but in long run there is hope for multi core prosessing. Now it is not that time yet though... So single core speed is very important to most users.

 

[Guest]

What's the big deal? AMD don't make the motherboards anyway so PCI-E3.00 will just be handled by a 3rd party controller.

 

[de5_Roy]

look at these amd fanboys downplaying pcie 3.0's need only because amd didn't support it in chipsets that haven't been released yet. pathetic.
people exist who need pcie 3.0 bandwidth and will benefit from pcie 3.0 in a value amd motherboard. think something like a phii 6 core + 990fx - a chipset that supports 42 pcie lanes and doesn't cost you a few limbs. intel has x58 that support 36-something pcie lanes but they're expensive. i assume the upcoming snb-e will also be as expensive if not more. that's why 1090fx, 1070 chipsets not supporting pcie 3.0 is kind of a bummer. i hope amd puts pcie 3.0 support with their upcoming am3+ chipsets. would be great combining that with piledriver if piledriver is competitive with ivb (or at least snbor snb-e).
motherboard manufacturers can always add support for more lanes using a 3rd party chip.
[strike]morons[/strike] people [strike]whining[/strike] undermining pcie 3.0 gfx cards will most likely change their tones after gaming benchmarks using pcie 3.0 gfx cards come out. iirc no one buys a new agp card + mobo with agp slot anymore.
amd and nvidia wouldn't have used pcie 3.0 in their new cards if they wanted them to be used in pcie 2.0/2.1 slots only.

 

[Shankovich]

I have to say I am disappointed with AMD not supporting PCI-e 3.0, which is really ironic (and kind of stupid) since they're making graphics cards that are 3.0 native. Honestly? But, games right now still (for the most part) don't take full advantage of the 2.0 bandwidth, so I can see why they'd hold back; there's simply no point, really. But for workstations, it will be very important. I really hope they reconsider, because if they ever want to go back to those 939 days, they'll need 3.0 support to get them going.