PCIe 6.0 complete specs are now available

[Redaktion]

The finalized PCIe 6.0 specs should be released in late 2021, a timeframe coinciding with the first consumer implementations of the PCIe 5.0 standard from AMD and Intel. This means that we can expect to see the PCIe 6.0 consumer implementations only by 2023. PCI SIG is planning to double the PCIe bandwidth every two years, even though AMD and Intel will most likely not move that quickly.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/PCIe-6-0-complete-specs-are-now-available.502220.0.html

[_MT_]

You've got some funky math. How on Earth did you arrive at 256 GB/s? Gen3 offers 8 GT/s per lane. With 16 lanes, you get 128 GT/s. With a 128b/130b encoding (hence why they specify transfers and not bits), you get about 126 Gb/s bandwidth (= 15.75 GB/s). Actual throughput is going to be a bit less because of overheads like error correction. And that's why Gen4 was awaited as you need it to power 200 Gb/s server interconnects. The only alternative was to use 32 Gen3 lanes per single port network card (using two 16x cards linked together - this is also used in multi-socket systems to avoid having to go through inter-socket bus).

Not to mention that even if I overlook the issue with you forgetting to account for encoding, 256 isn't double compared to Gen5. 16x Gen4 offers 31.5 GB/s. 16x Gen5 is going to offer 63 GB/s. You're talking quadruple. And that's not what they promised, right?

Development takes time. Although they might find a consumer application for it, I imagine it to be of interest primarily to server market - fast interconnects for clusters, large NVMe arrays, fast access into VRAM. That's a very different game.

[Abdul Rehman]

From where did you get the spec. Please share with me