PCI Express 7.0 is coming, again with 2x higher performance. M.2 SSDs will reach speeds of up to 64 GB/s

PCI Express 7.0 is already in the pipeline and will boost link speeds to 16 times the performance of the still-standard PCIe 3.0. A single line will be as fast as the recent full ×16 slot for graphics.

It’s only been a few months since PCI Express 5.0 came to PCs (with Intel Alder Lake processors). It will still be a while before PCI Express 6.0 is realistically used. But the development of this technology is flying ahead, and this week the new PCI Express 7.0 version has already been announced. This will again bring a leap in performance in terms of transfer capacity. Against PCIe 3.0, which has been the standard for quite a long time and still holds up in many places, PCIe 7.0 will be even 16× faster.

PCI Express 7.0 was officially announced yesterday by the authors of the technology, the PCI-SIG consortium, which was also behind the previous versions. It is probably still relatively early, so this is not an announcement of a finished technology. Still, we should expect the next generation of PCIe 7.0 in the future.

16 GB/s per link

Therefore, the PCI-SIG has not yet given many details. However, the speed will double again compared to the previous generation, so the PCIe data throughput scaling that PCI-SIG prides itself on will continue. Today, the most common PCI Express 3.0 provides 1 GB/s per link. The more powerful PCIe 4.0 available in 2019…