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JEMC on 23 May 2021
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Captain_Yuri said:

Also some AM5 rumours! Take it with a grain of salt!

Looks like AMD will be going LGA for Zen 5 if true. PCI-e 4.0 is a bit weird if Alder Lake turns out to be PCI-e 5.0.

Do we have any hardware that makes any use of PCI-E 5 already?

I do think 4.0 is still fine. Pretty sure they will upgrade to 5 midway with something like Zen 5 like they did the switch to PCI-E 4.0 with Zen 2.

Looking at the PCIe 4.0 specs, the max tranfer rate over 4 lines is 7.877 GB/s and we already have NVMe drives that exceed 7000 MB/s. It won't be long before it becomes a bottleneck.

So, either manufacturers start giving more PCIe lanes to storage, which they won't, or we move to PCIe 5.0.



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