![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking of PCIe 6.0, you might be wondering when that's coming out. It will be some time before PCIe 5.0 becomes the norm, and once it does we'll probably see PCIe 6.0 devices popping up, since the specification has actually been out for a year already. Even the highest-end motherboards in the current generation aren't 100% PCIe 5.0, and most midrange boards mostly use PCIe 4.0. However, PCIe 4.0 isn't going away quite yet, mainly because it costs more to add PCIe 5.0 support to electronics. The playing field is more even when considering random reads and writes (where the Aorus Gen5 did poorly), which are rarely ever bottlenecked by the speed of the PCIe data link. In a review by PCWorld, Gigabyte's Aorus Gen5 10000 was multiple gigabytes per second faster than Western Digital's SN850X, one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs. However, the hype for PCIe 5.0 SSD is definitely justified, as the increased bandwidth enables higher transfer speeds in sequential reads and writes, which is what's important when dealing with large files. That's especially true for GPUs, and it's unlikely that PCIe 5.0 will be a game changer for graphics cards since they usually come with more than enough bandwidth already. It's undeniable that PCIe 5.0 needs to exist in order for faster devices to get developed, but just having PCIe 5.0 doesn't make a GPU or SSD immediately better. So, should you upgrade to PCIe 5.0 components? Ultimately, a product is judged by what it can actually do rather than what it can theoretically do. ![]()
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