Is PCIe bandwidth a practical limitation at the moment for consumers? While it means you can use fewer lanes off the CPU there is no practical reason for consumers to be upgrading often enough to utilize faster generations. My impression was that the later generations are for server applications where more efficient use of PCIe lanes is a real benefit.
They working on pcie 7 yet I haven’t even found a pcie 5 device to use
I was going to upgrade to a 6500XT to do some 1080 gaming but found out that I was on Gen3. AMD cheaped out and only put 4 lanes on the 6500XT, which meant not enough bandwidth. I don’t know how much of an outlier I am, as comparing which board has what generation is not easy.
That’s what kept me from purchasing one for my client. I wonder how much money they saved per unit doing that.
No, manufacturers had to redesign their mainboards vor v5, because the frequencies got so high they had to move components closer to the CPU. That and heat dissipation and efficiency issues in first generation, which are still somewhat present on current gen.
At least a few months ago, recommendation for new builds was to go with a v4 mainboard.
I believe PCIe 4.0 wasnt that useful for big server farms, because network cards were already at 400gbps. Even at 100gbps networking, that’s only 2 ports.
PCIe 5.0 is only 1 port of 400gbps.
So PCIe 6.0 is the next actually big step for a lot of servers, so you can finally get dual 400gbps ports on 1 card
i wonder if we would get higher quality if the chip industry extended to a 3 year cycle
Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders
Why are they still bolting out new versions, despite v5 already having issues with proximity to the CPU (too high frequency), efficiency and heat dissipation issues to a point the mainboard itself needs fans/fins? Shouldn’t they add some kind of throtling to the protocol, because you don’t always need full speed and climate crysis and all?
At this point, a PCIe 7 mainboard would need to be photonic only to work at all. Or only on SOC designs, but that’s contrary to the usecase of PCIe.
What, you don’t miss the days of motherboards with northbridge fans?
I’m still on PCIe 3.0.
I’m running a 4090 on PCIe 3. Apparently I’m only losing about 5% off the potential frame rate, which is barely noticeable.
