PCI Express 5.0 has arrived on some motherboards
. The first ones SSD
under this standard are expected very soon.
With Alder Lake, Intel pioneered motherboards capable of handling both DDR5 RAM and PCI Express in its fifth iteration. Problem: the peripherals are not there… Well, not yet, but they are coming.
Two PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD projects
While various rumors point to a possible PCI Express 5.0 compatibility of the future GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, nothing has been confirmed, not even the existence of said card, by NVIDIA.
On the other hand, ADATA does confirm the existence of prototypes of NVMe SSDs to the new PCI Express standard. At present, the manufacturer even has two prototypes in order, in the near future, to put two different models on the market.
At the moment, there is talk of naming the products Project Nighthawk and Project Nightbird. Two models that rely on PCI Express 5.0 x4 and NVMe 2.0 protocol with capacities up to a maximum of 8 TB.
Up to 14 GB / s sequential read
ADATA has plans to showcase various accessories during CES 2022 in Las Vegas (January 5-8) and, alongside DDR5 strips or hardware gaming, these two SSDs should be prominently placed.
On the performance side, although it will be up to ADATA to clarify things further, and also up to us to verify them, we have learned that there is talk of reaching 14 GB / s in sequential read on these SSDs. ADATA also seems to provide 12 and 10 Gb / s variants.
Remember that only Intel’s Alder Lake platform can use PCI Express 5.0, and again, only through processors that manage a maximum of 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes. In fact, on this generation, GPU and SSD will be required to share these lines.
Source: VideoCardz
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