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What is PCIe 4.0 & Should You Upgrade Your System?
In late 2011, PCI-SIG introduced initial specifications for the PCIe 4.0 standard, which was said to offer 16 GT/s or 32 GB/s in a 16-lane setup. The official launch took almost 6 years, and in June ...
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Nearly five years later, you still don't need PCIe 5.0
W hen PCIe 5.0 first appeared on motherboards back in late 2021 with Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, I knew it was a bit early.
Check out the underside of Intel's next twelfth-generation desktop processor, the lga1700 socket. Even more intriguing is the diagram for the Z690 chipset, which is the highest-end model that will be ...
PCIe 4.0 sounds exciting—it’s the first big change to the interface since 2010. But as always, the questions of who can get it (and who can’t), and who really needs it, are more nuanced than you’d ...
The GeForce RTX 4060 (AD106) purportedly achieves a TimeSpy Extreme score of 7,000 points, according to a tweet by resident GPU leaker Kopite7kimi. If correct, the GeForce RTX 4060's performance would ...
PC components have a finite number of channels that connect with the CPU. These channels are physically built into the CPU, the motherboard, and the components themselves — and they're called PCIe ...
As of now, the PCI Express 4.0 standard has been finalized and officially released. The new protocol promises twice the per-lane bandwidth of PCI Express 3.0, allowing a GPU or other accelerator to ...
This month AMD will finally release their first entry-level RDNA2-based gaming product, the Radeon RX 6500 XT. This new GPU is set to come in at a $200 MSRP, though of course we expect it to cost more ...
PCIe 4 is finally here. AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 3000 generation of CPUs are backwards compatible with most first and second-generation, 300 and 400 series motherboards. But the 500 series, and more ...
NVIDIA will be unleashing its new monster GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card next month, but the other Ada Lovelace GPU releases in the GeForce RTX 4060 will use 8 PCIe lanes. The news of AD106 and AD107 ...
PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 are both uniquely placed in the market: while motherboards based on the older standard are readily selling, most current-generation graphics cards are pushing the latest version. If ...
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