Subj : PCIe 7.0 has been announced, offering superfast speeds for the co To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Jun 12 2025 20:15:08 PCIe 7.0 has been announced, offering superfast speeds for the components inside your PC but dont get excited just yet Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:06:04 +0000 Description: Even though PCIe 6.0 still hasnt arrived, PCIe 7.0 has just been announced and work has begun on PCIe 8.0. Confused? Well explain it all. FULL STORY ======================================================================The spec for PCIe 7.0 has been announced Its a new standard for even faster incredibly quick connections with PCIe components in your PC The standard is still in the earliest stages, though, and wont be here for a long time (PCIe 6.0 hasnt quite arrived yet, in fact) PCIe (PCI Express) connectivity continues to forge ahead and already a new spec for a future generation of PCs has been announced, which is PCIe 7.0. VideoCardz reports that PCI-SIG, the organization that oversees the standard, has announced PCIe 7.0 and is boasting about just how fast itll be. (Spoiler alert: really, really fast). But wait a minute arent we still on PCIe 5.0 these days? Well, yes, thats what a (cutting-edge) PC will support, and Ill come back to exactly whats going on with the development path of the PCI Express standard (and PCIe 6.0) momentarily. PCIe 7.0 is currently a spec that has just been sketched out, and itll offer a data rate of 128GT/s, which is twice the speed of PCIe 6.0 (which itself doubled the transfer rate of PCIe 5.0). With PCIe 7.0, youll get support for up to 16 PCIe lanes (in a single slot) and up to 512GB/s of bandwidth in total (in both directions). PCIe lanes are bi-directional (meaning data can be sent in either direction) lines of communication hooking up PCIe components primarily the graphics card or SSDs (but also other miscellaneous boards) to the motherboard. Collectively, PCIe lanes facilitate all these key components working in your PC ( read up more about this here ). So, while much faster speeds for that communication is indeed a potentially big deal for the future, for the performance of GPUs and drives mainly, we are very much looking to the future here meaning way down the line. Analysis: Timescales and PCIe 8.0 appearing on the horizon (Image credit: Future / John Loeffler) As I already mentioned, we are on PCIe 5.0 right now. PCIe 6.0 was announced at the start of 2022, over three years ago, and still remains in development, though it is now nearing the finish line we may even see the first hardware supporting it arrive later this year (or early next). So, as you can imagine, were looking towards the end of the decade before PCIe 7.0 actually pitches up. Leading up to that milestone, hardware makers will be working away with the standard, developing and testing prototypes, and refining the final hardware for three or four years. And initially, that hardware will be used in the likes of quantum computing, data centers and other demanding tasks not consumer PCs. And meanwhile, PCI-SIG has confirmed that work on concocting the PCIe 8.0 standard has already begun. So, while this is all well and good, with these incoming standards lining up and sounding ever more blisteringly fast, whats the impact for consumers in the nearer-term? Not a lot, frankly. Even the top-tier, super-expensive examples of the best GPUs currently available arent pushing the boundaries of PCIe 5.0 yet theres no need for anything faster, not even in the flashiest PC. However, there are niche cases where older PCIe standards are now hampering some new graphics cards. A case in point is the RTX 5060 Ti (or non-Ti) with 8GB of video RAM, which loses some performance when its in a PCIe 4.0 motherboard slot because that slower standard isnt enough and if your motherboards still using PCIe 3.0, thats a world of performance pain. (For a detailed explanation of why this GPU is problematic in this way, check here AMDs RX 9060 XT is also held back by its 8GB of VRAM). Really, though, this is outlier stuff more than anything (and frankly, more to do with questionable decision-making and configuration of these graphics cards in the first place). Still, with ever-faster PCIe standards rolling inexorably towards us, in the future, even aging consumer PCs might cope better with whatever dubious decisions GPU makers throw at them. Furthermore, as recently discussed, advancing the PCIe spec and keeping it very much on the cutting-edge is important in terms of maintaining standardization for the connection of PC components . You might also like Nvidia RTX 5080 vs RTX 5070 Ti: Should you spend a little more? Want very big SSDs? Here's a little-known secret, 15.36TB models are almost as cheap as 8TB ones per terabyte but there's a catch AMD could be working on a faster RX 9070 Extreme graphics card ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-components/pcie-7-0-has-been-ann ounced-offering-superfast-speeds-for-the-components-inside-your-pc-but-dont-ge t-excited-just-yet --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .