PCIe 5.0 is right around the corner with it debuting on Intel's new Alder Lake platform, with the new 600-series motherboards led by the Z690 chipset rocking PCIe 5.0 slots and DDR5 memory support. We ...

TL;DR: The PCI-SIG has released version 0.7 of the PCIe 7.0 specifications for member approval, aiming to finalize it later this year. PCIe 7.0 will double the bandwidth of PCIe 6.0, offering 128GT/s ...

If you read that and thought, "PCIe 7.0? What happened to 6.0?", don't worry—PCIe 6.0 is already finalized and still on track for product launches that are likely coming next year or the year after.

As of right now, the fastest PCI Express protocol available on consumer motherboards is PCI Express 5.0, which offers up to 128GB/s of bi-directional x16 bandwidth. While certainly fast, PCI Express 7 ...

Over the past few years, high-end PCs have come to be associated with PCI Express 5.0, the infrastructure that connects graphics cards and SSDs. That’s close to changing, as the PCI Special Interest ...