Tuesday, June 18th 2019
PCI-SIG Announces PCIe 6.0 Specification
PCI-SIG today announced that PCI Express (PCIe ) 6.0 technology will double the data rate to 64 GT/s while maintaining backwards compatibility with previous generations and delivering power efficiency and cost-effective performance. The PCIe 6.0 specification is actively targeted for release in 2021.
PCIe 6.0 Specification Features
"Continuing the trend we set with the PCIe 5.0 specification, the PCIe 6.0 specification is on a fast timeline," Al Yanes, PCI-SIG Chairman and President, said. "Due to the continued commitment of our member companies, we are on pace to double the bandwidth yet again in a time frame that will meet industry demand for throughput."
To learn more about PCI-SIG, visit www.pcisig.com.
About PCI-SIG
PCI-SIG is the consortium that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines industry standard I/O (input/output) specifications consistent with the needs of its members. Currently, PCI-SIG is comprised of over 800 industry-leading member companies. To join PCI-SIG, and for a list of the Board of Directors, visit www.pcisig.com.
PCI-SIG, PCI Express, and PCIe are trademarks or registered trademarks of PCI-SIG. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
PCIe 6.0 Specification Features
- Delivers 64 GT/s raw bit rate and up to 256 GB/s via x16 configuration
- Utilizes PAM-4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) encoding and leverages existing 56G PAM-4 in the industry
- Includes low-latency Forward Error Correction (FEC) with additional mechanisms to improve bandwidth efficiency
- Maintains backwards compatibility with all previous generations of PCIe technology
"Continuing the trend we set with the PCIe 5.0 specification, the PCIe 6.0 specification is on a fast timeline," Al Yanes, PCI-SIG Chairman and President, said. "Due to the continued commitment of our member companies, we are on pace to double the bandwidth yet again in a time frame that will meet industry demand for throughput."
To learn more about PCI-SIG, visit www.pcisig.com.
About PCI-SIG
PCI-SIG is the consortium that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines industry standard I/O (input/output) specifications consistent with the needs of its members. Currently, PCI-SIG is comprised of over 800 industry-leading member companies. To join PCI-SIG, and for a list of the Board of Directors, visit www.pcisig.com.
PCI-SIG, PCI Express, and PCIe are trademarks or registered trademarks of PCI-SIG. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
34 Comments on PCI-SIG Announces PCIe 6.0 Specification
This makes my brain hurt. Teknologi advance to fast now. New tech are ready even faster than the older one can be released on the marked. THIS MAKES MY BRAIN TREMBLE.
I mean we've got pcie 4.0 rx5700 that's only just beating 2070 and pci-e 4.0 drives that advertise some stellar sequential transfers but I bet they couldn't beat a quality pci-e 3.0 drive in random speeds anyway.
I'm still on a board that i bought in 2014,cpu from 2015 and sata ssds and I don't really see any of those really slowing my pc down at all.
Exsamples. Intels i7 975X cost at the time 999$ and today intels extreme cpu cost a bargain 1999$. Best deal of the year right:kookoo:
Back in 2009 the fastest single gpu card whas gtx 285 and i paid what is 360 usd with taxes and shipping. Today in the other hand, the fastest single gpu today meant for gaming cost a round 3300 usd for titan rtx and for rtx 2080 ti is around 1600 usd. All price comparison on gpu's is from my own country from now and back then.
So yeah prices has been stupidity high.
Those two links are the reason they are pushing for quick increase in transfer speeds, as PCI-e has fallen behind A LOT.
PCIe main goals are compatibility, versatility and cost. Thing that are all missing in nvlink and IF.
=> A Reconfigurable 28/56 Gb/s PAM4/NRZ Dual-mode SerDes with Hardware-reuse
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7947110
=> A Reconfigurable 16/32 Gb/s Dual-Mode NRZ/PAM4 SerDes in 65-nm CMOS
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8551089
=> A 3D-Integrated 56 Gb/s NRZ/PAM4 Reconfigurable Segmented Mach-Zehnder Modulator-Based Si-Photonics Transmitter
oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/173598
=> High Speed Reconfigurable NRZ/PAM4 Transceiver Design Techniques
NRZ(PCIe 5.0) <-> PAM4(PCIE 6) is definitely in the possibility. With the added benefit of PAM4(PCIe) <-> PAM4(GenZ), with same silicon and different AIB.
Even then, Gen 5 and Gen 6 will hit enterprise and speciality applications before it hits consumers. PCI-E 4 is new to "General Populace" but gen 4 is not "new".
Some of that proprietary tech never even sees consumer consumption because it is cut watered down or modified into a different product that does not resemble what is used. Like custom blade interconnects etc etc.
EDIT:: Of course I also think you are right, I don't thing everything is like that. Not all tech necessarily trickles down. For example, I dont think RAM does.
Would you like to use pcie 3.0 waiting for 5 year.
"By this time next year, we could see the first desktop platforms and GPUs implementing PCI-Express gen 4.0 in the market. If only "Turing" supported PCIe gen 4.0, you would have had the luxury to run it at gen 4.0 x8 without worrying about any performance loss. Exactly this is the promise of PCIe gen 4.0, not more bandwidth per device, but each device working happily with a lower number of lanes, so processor makers aren't required to add more lanes."
www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-pci-express-scaling/
Just go for 1TB/s right away with PCIe 6.0
Also DDR5 memory is obsolete as system memory, they really need to up the game to develop a new system memory that at least starts at 1TB/s bandwidth and double the speed each generation.