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Didn't realize PCIe gen 6 was this close . Seems like they should have skipped a few generations like CAT8 instead of making new versions so close to each other
by jokowueu 5y ago
Didn't realize PCIe gen 6 was this close . Seems like they should have skipped a few generations like CAT8 instead of making new versions so close to each other .
- terafo 5y agoThere was 7 year gap between 3 and 4 and they're catching up.
- jilijeanlouis 5y agoalso consider that you need the CPU to be compatible and this is where the innovation struggles to be implemented in real life.
- arghwhat 5y agoEach upgrade makes it harder to make a chip IP/motherboard that is in spec due to the increasing frequency and signal integrity requirements. There's a reason gen4 took so long to roll out - it has been finalized for 4 years (with he manufacturers working on support for much longer), and it's still not ubiquitous. I'm sure you'd rather have a gen4 or gen5 board when gen6 is rather than be stuck on gen3. (Plus, for gaming loads there are diminishing returns - outside reducing texture upload times, GPUs in gaming scenarios do not use a lot of PCIe bandwidth.)
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- Dylan16807 5y agoI wouldn't really hold ethernet cables up as a model of skipping unnecessary generations. There's 6, then there's 7, then they came out with 6A and 7A, and 7 is unpopular and 7A unheard of, and then there are apparently two kinds of 8 with different plug and shielding requirements?