News PCI-SIG Announces PCIe 6.0, up to 256 GBps in 2021

[Admin]

The PCI-SIG, the standards body behind the PCIe specification, is already plowing forward with work on PCIe 6.0, which it says will be completed in 2021.

PCI-SIG Announces PCIe 6.0, up to 256 GBps in 2021 : Read more

 

[hannibal]

Thing are getting old fast 😉

Just good thing. This mean no need To increase pci lines in normal user computers. Just More speed with those few...

 

[thegriff]

Man and I still have a backup computer that has an AGP interface. Gotta, put that thing to rest and move over rest of fils 🙁

 

[vern72]

"It is possible that PCIe 4.0 will be an outdated spec"? It already is by 5.0! I hope 5.0 catches on quickly but 6.0 can wait. I guess it depends how easy it would be to implement the PAM4 encoding scheme in PCI.

 

[JamesSneed]

"It is possible that PCIe 4.0 will be an outdated spec"? It already is by 5.0! I hope 5.0 catches on quickly but 6.0 can wait. I guess it depends how easy it would be to implement the PAM4 encoding scheme in PCI.

PCIE 4.0 is already more expensive to implement. You really need a chipset made on a 10nm/7nm process to be efficient enough to not need active cooling. Then you have increased signaling so you need short clean traces which can increase motherboard layers all making it more costly.

PCIE 5.0 is going into servers. Intel and AMD are not bringing PCIE 5.0 into desktops in the near future as its complete overkill and is very costly right now. PCIE 6.0 is also going to live in server for many years as well.