PCIE EXPRESS 3.0, 2X SPEED FOR ALL!

PCIE EXPRESS 3.0, 2X SPEED FOR ALL!

"Everything are faster than ever. " 

Everything are faster than ever. Heading towards USB 3.0 and SATA 6GBPS, here comes the new PCIE standard: PCIE Express 3.0. PCIE Express is a port on your motherboard that is used for data storage, GPU and audio cards.


ENGADGET RELEASE:
First Bluetooth, then USB and now PCI Express. It's clearly the era of version 3.0, and given that the PCI Express specification has been humming along at 2.0 speeds for over two years now, we'd say an update was definitely due. Thankfully, the PCI-SIG has announced the availability of the PCIe Base 3.0 specification to its members today, and the highlights are certainly notable. There's a new 128b/130b encoding scheme and a data rate of 8 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), doubling the interconnect bandwidth over the PCIe 2.0 specification. And since we're sure you're fretting it, we'll go ahead and affirm that it maintains backward compatibility with previous PCIe architectures. We're also told that based on this data rate expansion, "it is possible for products designed to the PCIe 3.0 architecture to achieve bandwidth near 1 gigabyte per second (GB/s) in one direction on a single-lane (x1) configuration and scale to an aggregate approaching 32 GB/s on a sixteen-lane (x16) configuration." A lot of technobabble, sure, but one thing's for sure: your next graphics card is bound to murder your current one if paired with a PCIe 3.0 motherboard.

That is a OCZ Revo Drive X2 250GB SSD, things like this will become even more faster when PCIE express 3.0 eliminates the bottleneck of PCIE 2.0 speed. 

That is a Nvidia GTX 580, with the introduction of PCIE Express 3.0, GPU manufacturers will be able to produce faster Graphics Card, and better scaling on SLI or Crossfire.  

For those who don't know what is a PCIE ports... Those vertical red and black ports are PCIE ports, these are the current generation PCIE 2.0.

 by Vincent Tey 빈센트 on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 12:54pm