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PCIe 6.0 hardware to launch in 2024, followed by PCIe 7.0 in 2027
Although PCIe 5.0 just arrived months ago, it looks like PCIe 6.0 is just on the horizon, and PCIe 7.0 isn't far behind.
The first PCIe 5.0 SSDs for consumers just arrived earlier this year, immediately following the launch of PCIe capable AMD Ryzen 7000 and Intel 13th-generation CPUs. But PCI-SIG, the consortium behind PCIe, already has its sights set on PCIe 6.0. Although PCIe 6.0 is complete on a design level, no PCIe 6.0 devices have yet come out, but in its latest presentation, PCI-SIG says the next-generation data link should start showing up in real devices starting in March 2024.
PCIe 6.0 specification announced with up to 256GB/s of bandwidth
The PCI Special Interest Group has announced PCIe 6.0, promising double the bandwidth of the last generation and backwards compatibility.
PCI Express, or PCIe, 5.0 has barely started making its way to consumer products, but version 6.0 is already on the horizon. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) announced the finalized version of the upcoming standard this week, once again doubling the bandwidth of the previous generation. Arriving less than three years after PCIe 5.0 was introduced, PCIe 6.0 offers raw data rates of up to 64 GT/s (gigatransfers per second) and bidrectional bandwidth up to 256GB/s in x16 lanes.