AMD's AM5 platform will fall behind Intel when it comes to PCIe 5.0 adoption

[WYP]

AMD will be behind Intel with PCIe 5.0, but does this matter?



Read more about AMD implementing PCIe 5.0 support after Intel.

 

[Dicehunter]

Unless AMD's 7000 series or Nvidia's 4000 series are PCI-E 5, That actually NEED PCI-E 5, I don't see this as a problem.

 

[g0ggles1994]

Unless AMD's 7000 series or Nvidia's 4000 series are PCI-E 5, That actually NEED PCI-E 5, I don't see this as a problem.

I agree. But you can guarantee Intel and their fan boys will be screaming PCIe 5 from the rooftops.

 

[dihartnell]

Will Intel really deliver this year....

 

[looz]

I agree. But you can guarantee Intel and their fan boys will be screaming PCIe 5 from the rooftops.

Why would we when even PCI-E 3.0 is absolutely indistinguishable from 4.0 except for benchmarks.

 

[demonking]

By the time we have devices that are limited by gen 4 pci-e these systems will be so outdated that you wont want to pair then with these chips.
I mean Sandy bridge was the first to use PCIe 3, imagine how much a 2500k would bottle neck with a 2080ti and that card does not even saturate the connection.
I think it would be foolish to think anyone needs gen 5 at the moment, not in the consumer space anyway and probably rarely in the professional/ scientific useage

 

[ImprovizoR]

OH NO!


Anyway...

 

[Emu]

Unless AMD's 7000 series or Nvidia's 4000 series are PCI-E 5, That actually NEED PCI-E 5, I don't see this as a problem.

I would be extremely surprised if we saw either requiring more bandwidth than a PCIe gen 4 x16 slot provides. Although, if AMD comes out with a multi chip module design then we might actually see a high end GPU from them that requires PCIe gen 5 to get the most out of it (which would be rather ironic if their consumer CPUs didn't support it).

Speculation is fun.

 

[LePhuronn]

Intel may do the PCIe Gen 5 flag waving but they've already said their first Gen 5 desktop implementation won't support storage. So you can't use Gen 5 for what we'd want to use it for and it's wasted on what we can use it for.

Intel, if you're going to willy-wave to get attention, make sure the willy you're waving is actually impressive to begin with. Nobody wants to see your lil nubbin.

 

[grec]

Knowing Intel they'll make Gen 5 "worthwhile" by giving people like 12 lanes on normal SKUs