January 12 news, after three years, PCI-SIG organization officially released the PCIe 6.0 standard specification, compared with the previous generation of PCIe 5.0 standard, the new standard bandwidth doubled, single channel original rate reached 64GT/s, PCIe 6.0 * 16 channel bandwidth up to 256GB/s, and the latency is significantly reduced.
The main application scenario of PCIe 6.0 should be enterprise-level servers, higher bandwidth, lower latency can meet the needs of the future storage industry, for data centers, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and so on to provide protection.
For ordinary users, the most intuitive feeling should be to play the game more smoothly, PCIe 6.0 can ensure that high quality, high resolution under the condition of bandwidth will not become a bottleneck, resulting in graphics card performance can not be perfectly played.
As for when PCIe 6.0 will be popularized, Xiao Lei can only say that it is far away. As Xiao Lei said above, PCIe 5.0 was released three years ago, but the consumer market was first launched by Intel's 12th-generation Core and Z690 motherboards, and this set of boardSus has not been released for a long time. On amD's side, it is expected that the Ryzen™ 7000 series in the second half of this year will support PCIe 5.0 and DDR 5 after changing the interface package.
Devices using PCIe 6.0 interface will mainly have graphics cards, hard disks, etc., and it is expected that RTX 60 series and AMD RX 9000 series graphics cards will have the opportunity to use them. Hard disk will be slower, in the ces 2022 conference a few days ago, Qunlian just released the PCIe 5.0 main control chip PS5026-E26, it is expected that from 2023 to 2024 PCIe 5.0 hard disk will be listed on a large scale. At this rate, PCIe 6.0 hard drives won't be popular until around 2028.
Of course, these high-performance hard disks, graphics cards ordinary users may not need, we play games every day, office, the existing graphics card, hard disk speed is completely enough, only the ashes of players, will keep up with each generation of the manufacturer's upgrade. Ordinary players need to wait for the cost of the product to fall and the price to reach the right range before they can sell, just like DDR5 memory has been released for so long, and there are still many DDR2 and DDR3 memory users.