PCI-SIG officially releases the PCIe 4.0 standard

[WYP]

This standard offers 2x the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0.



Read more on PCI-SIG's PCIe 4.0 standard.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Honestly seems like we will skip 4.0 and go straight to 5.

 

[cj09bruno]

considering pcie 5 is going to be released in 2019, amd might just skip pcie 4 with ryzen 3 (after ryzen on nm) because that one has a release window of around 2019-2020, unless amd brings pcie 4 while on am4/am4+

 

[Kourgath223]

Honestly seems like we will skip 4.0 and go straight to 5.

I am inclined to agree.

 

[The Zealot]

Only if Ryzen 2 and Coffee Lake (which is mostly a paper launch at this point in time) don't launch with motherboards ready with PCI-Ex 4.0. There's going to be quite a bit of people where it's just not feasible to wait until 2020 for an upgrade in order to get PCI-Ex 5.0.

 

[Surfie]

Only if Ryzen 2 and Coffee Lake (which is mostly a paper launch at this point in time) don't launch with motherboards ready with PCI-Ex 4.0. There's going to be quite a bit of people where it's just not feasible to wait until 2020 for an upgrade in order to get PCI-Ex 5.0.

Whilst that is true, as far as it goes, it could be argued that that group of users will (or at least should) update now, and then by the time PCIE 5 rolls around, they will be able to skip PCIE 4 along with the rest of us.

Of course, our supposition also relies on PCIE 5 not being delayed. I personally think this supposition is probably not right - I would expecte 2 years delay minimum. And this is assuming that the company doesn't just decide to hold it up to ensure that the return on investment for PCIE 4 is realised before releasing PCIE 5.