Rejoice! PCI Express 7.0 hits 'final draft' status enabling bandwidth that you probably won't notice on devices that won't appear for years

Ought to be enough for anybody.

...is what's left of the tech press just stuck in permanent snark mode and just can't physically write any other way?

It feels like it

Well, I guess you can have more potent PCIe cards now, so you can add QSFP variants like QSFP256 or just multiple connections, without worrying about bandwidth.

That is, if that is actually used somewhere, currently we're stuck at 5.0, and servers usually are not meant to have connectivity added in, but rather to just have it (more cash for the manufacturer anyway).

the advantage for pci-e generations isn't the gpu side, but SSD side(USB too). CPUs by design, have a limited amount of PCI-E lanes they can distribute. Modern SSD's primarily use 4x pci-e lanes, but if you have a generation newer, you can allocate half as many lanes to achieve the same speed.

Since at the moment, the value of even faster SSD's are useless, what ACTUALLY becomes off value is having multiple m.2 slots for expansion. for example, instead of having 1 m.2 running pci-e 4.0x4lanes, you can achieve the same speed at pci-e 5.0x2lanes, or pci-e 6.0x1lane. Using less lanes on m.2 slots means you can allocate more bandwidth to other components(more m.2, more USB ports, etc).

this for eaxmple was the reason why experimental gpus like the Asus Dual RTX 4060ti existed, as its a 8 lane gpu, which had an on board to use the other lanes as ssd storage on motherboards that supported bifurcation.

Have you considered that we could reduce the number of lanes available and fuck some of our customers?

• some GPU sales guy, probably