Wednesday, October 16th 2019
PCI-Express Gen 6.0 Specification to Finalize by 2021
With 64 Gbps bandwidth per lane, 256 Gbps in x4, and a whopping 1 Tbps in x16 (128 GB/s per direction), PCI-Express 6.0 will debut in 2021 as 5G adoption hits critical mass in markets across the globe, to support server nodes, high-bandwidth network infrastructure, and lighting fast I/O for HPC and AI applications. Development of the new standard is already underway, with the specification having achieved a pre-release version 0.3, according to the PCI-SIG, the body that develops and maintains the PCI IP.
Further development, prototyping, and testing of the standard will run through 2020 as drafts of the standard are dispatched to interested parties. With the specification published in 2021, the first devices implementing it could arrive the following year. Granted, very few devices need 1 Tbps bandwidth, but the exercise of doubling bandwidth every 3 or so years has its maximum impact on devices that only have wiring for one PCIe lane, and directly impacts bandwidth of other I/O specifications that are derived from PCIe, such as USB, Thunderbolt, CXL, etc.
Further development, prototyping, and testing of the standard will run through 2020 as drafts of the standard are dispatched to interested parties. With the specification published in 2021, the first devices implementing it could arrive the following year. Granted, very few devices need 1 Tbps bandwidth, but the exercise of doubling bandwidth every 3 or so years has its maximum impact on devices that only have wiring for one PCIe lane, and directly impacts bandwidth of other I/O specifications that are derived from PCIe, such as USB, Thunderbolt, CXL, etc.
26 Comments on PCI-Express Gen 6.0 Specification to Finalize by 2021
But I guess the PCIe SIG doesn't really care about consumer products...
And once more, while nobody will need the bandwidth of a x16 PCIe 6.0 slot in the foreseeable future, being able to run a NVMe SSD off just one PCIe lane opens up a whole lot of possibilities. Especially if/when someone figures out how to multiplex several slow devices onto just one lane.
Seems the bandwith will be more then plenty for now and maybe it can free up some real-estate on a motherboard if its all x4
PCIe throughput is incredible but there is a reason SLI doesn't work the way it's supposed to... it needs much lower latency than PCIe can offer.
For that matter, we won't see 5.0 til 2H 2021if 18 months from finalized spec to production holds true.
I read these things to gage my upgrade cycle which ranges between every 1-1/2 to 2 years.
What this tells me is I need to adjust that to every 3 years if I want to wait till things double.
That doesn't take into account that when released we actually see a doubling at release.
Truth is PCIe 4.0 hasn't double anything and it's hard to get excited about any of it.
About life... that's just us getting old :pYou say that, but.... we're still learning how to deal with something like 'the internet'.
I do agree tech is going too fast for us in a general sense. I mean, hardware progress perhaps not. But what we do with it... definitely. Look at data/privacy, look at security, look at people addicted to phones. We're fast obtaining powerful tools and what do we do with them... watch cat videos and troll each other,, and bring Orwell's dreams to reality.
I did use dual 5¼" floppy drives though, one for the programming language to load from and one to save to.
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The early days of plug'n'pray wasn't so great...
:D
Unlike the multiple layers of emulation used today, when setting it correctly it actually worked.
And audio was actually of high quality up to XP, not hyper-emulated and turned to junk.
mode con rate=32 delay=1 in autoexec.bat file ;)
A cookie for the ones that know what it does.
Other popular options were setting the stack size and stuff like that. And making sure Norton Utilities was in your path ;)