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?
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?
Ultimately depends on how the motherboard manufacturers implement it and the choices they provide. If they were smart they wouldn’t narrow lanes, but instead break up most of the higher speed lanes into multiple lower speed ones.
Just as an example, that x16 lane slot to the CPU, with PCIe-6.0 you could break it up into three 4.0x16 slots and four 4.0x4 NVME slots.
Granted, at PCIe-6.0 your probably well beyond the total bandwidth a normal user would need. At that point you hope as the technology matures so it can reduce costs by reducing how many lanes a CPU and motherboard need at all.