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PCI Express 7.0 Spec Hits Draft 0.3, 512GBps Connectivity on Track For 2025 Release (www.anandtech.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Honest question coming from a point of consumer-thinking ignorance: With GPU makers putting out x8 cards on PCIe 4.0 and the heat issues with PCIe 5.0 SSDs, what practical nonenterprise uses are these speeds going to have?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I even care, I just want it!
A 10TB NVME running at PCIE 7 X16 would feel like actual magic. Stuff would load before you'd even lifted your finger up off the mouse. I can imagine that processors no matter what they are would become the bottle neck and not the IO. Bring it on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That would be faster than the RAM on most systems!