12/04/2022
Significant Overhaul - PCIe 6.0
By doubling the speed of PCIe links, PCIe 6.0 achieves an overall doubling of bandwidth rates. X1 links moved from 4GB/sec/direction to 8GB/sec/direction, and scaled all the way up to 128GB/sec/direction for full x16 links.
For devices that already stitch a link of a given width, the extra bandwidth means a significant increase in the bus limit; meanwhile, for devices that have not yet saturated the link, PCIe 6.0 offers reduced link width, maintaining the same bandwidth while reducing hardware cost opportunity.
PCIe 6.0 is a more significant overhaul, arguably the biggest in the standard's history. In order to double the bandwidth again, the PCI-SIG revolutionized the signaling technology, moving from the non-return-to-zero (NRZ) technology used in the beginning to Pulse Amplitude Modulation 4 (PAM4).
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