News Micron announces industry first PCIe Gen6 SSD, claims 26GB/s transfer speed

[Admin]

Micron has announced the development of the industry's first PCIe Gen6 SSD. Claimed to be capable of 'sequential read bandwidths of over 26GB/s,' the new SSDs are being made available to data center operating partners.

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[A Stoner]

I do not even remember PCIe being released already... I have not even contemplated buying any of the PCIe5 devices and they are already sporting the next generation! Amazing. I wonder how much faster my browser will run with 26 GB/s hard drive.

 

[Eximo]

PCIe generally trickles down from enterprise. Just look at it as a preview of things to come.

X670 / X670E boards are the ones with enough 5.0 lanes to be somewhat practical. Intel still thinks you should share GPU and M.2 bandwidth for that.

Next gen consoles are likely to be PCIe 5.0, that is when we will start to see the impact of game developers requiring it.

 

[hotaru251]

& how hot does it get when actually hitting them speeds for more than a few seconds?

Gen5 already thermal throttle often w/o large (for the m.2 size) heatsinks.

 

[tyns78]

...and the 3dxp they abandoned would still provide better performance in all areas except sequential reads (sequential writes large enough for that speed to matter would quickly fill the SLC cache and slow to a relative crawl)

PCIe generally trickles down from enterprise. Just look at it as a preview of things to come.

X670 / X670E boards are the ones with enough 5.0 lanes to be somewhat practical. Intel still thinks you should share GPU and M.2 bandwidth for that.

Next gen consoles are likely to be PCIe 5.0, that is when we will start to see the impact of game developers requiring it.

8x pcie 4 is like a 1% perf drop over 16 lanes. PCI-E 5 has always just been a big number marketing gimmick.

Optane devices will still smoke this pci-e 6 device in any metric that actually matters in real world usage. Sequential write speed declines so rapidly for nand devices I don’t see how this increase will make a real difference.

I’d love to see x4 slots for gpu’s and x1 slots for nvme and everything else so we finally get some expansion lanes to work with again

 

[Justare]

I need this in my next gaming pc. When will motherboards include PCIe Gen 6 x4?

 

[Eximo]

I’d love to see x4 slots for gpu’s and x1 slots for nvme and everything else so we finally get some expansion lanes to work with again

It would be neat if they started making a smaller GPU standard. Already seen some efforts with the 8x GPUs that include an M.2 slot. Bifurcation would have to become standard for that to work in practice.

8x and 4x GPUs are actually super common already, just in the mobile sector. Lets them cheap out on the motherboards to not use a full 16 lanes.

But it seems like the beefy discrete GPUs are here to stay for a while.

CAMM style GPUs like we had for MXM would be pretty cool. I always thought it would be very interesting to have a back of the motherboard mount for the GPU which would free up space on the top side of the board for more traditional expansion cards. Separate airflow path for the GPU and CPU as well. Since big GPUs are 3.5 slots, you really only get three slots on an ATX board. And to make things nicer, most other expansion cards that a consumer uses are generally not full height, so making the 'standard' half height would prevent chassis from getting wider (though people seem fine with current dual chamber designs)

It would take a pretty concerted effort though. CPU cooler compatibility would be an issue and all new chassis. But I also see CPU + CAMM module coolers making for a very interesting outcome.

 

[thestryker]

Next gen consoles are likely to be PCIe 5.0, that is when we will start to see the impact of game developers requiring it.

While they might use PCIe 5.0 it's unlikely to have any real impact. The Xbox SSD basically runs under PCIe 3.0 bandwidth and the PS5 one is in the ~5GB/s range. Neither SSD has any real raw performance but rather rely on the controllers and software to make the difference. I imagine most of the improvements will be on the controller and design side of things as opposed to leveraging anything from newer PCIe versions.

 

[jp7189]

...and the 3dxp they abandoned would still provide better performance in all areas except sequential reads (sequential writes large enough for that speed to matter would quickly fill the SLC cache and slow to a relative crawl)


8x pcie 4 is like a 1% perf drop over 16 lanes. PCI-E 5 has always just been a big number marketing gimmick.

Optane devices will still smoke this pci-e 6 device in any metric that actually matters in real world usage. Sequential write speed declines so rapidly for nand devices I don’t see how this increase will make a real difference.

I’d love to see x4 slots for gpu’s and x1 slots for nvme and everything else so we finally get some expansion lanes to work with again

You're not wrong, but the thing that counts above almost anything else in the enterprise world is capacity and cost per RU. That is the reason those techs won't see mass adoption.

 

[Eximo]

While they might use PCIe 5.0 it's unlikely to have any real impact. The Xbox SSD basically runs under PCIe 3.0 bandwidth and the PS5 one is in the ~5GB/s range. Neither SSD has any real raw performance but rather rely on the controllers and software to make the difference. I imagine most of the improvements will be on the controller and design side of things as opposed to leveraging anything from newer PCIe versions.

Certainly better controllers that don't cook themselves will be nice.

If the capability is there, and there is some benefit, they will utilize the drive speed. Even if it means the massive games 4 or 5 years from now just load faster. But I suspect the efforts will be towards more true 4K AAA titles rather than upscaling. That means big textures and assets and the current trend is to keep those compressed until run time.

 

[USAFRet]

I need this in my next gaming pc. When will motherboards include PCIe Gen 6 x4?

Why? You do realize that drive speeds matters FAR less in game performance than just about everything else. Right?