Radeon HD 7000-series will be possible with pci-e 3.0

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The upcoming HD 7000 gpu’s where AMD currently under the code name “Southern Islands” to work gets the support for the new pci-e standard. Pci-e 3.0 per lane twice as high bandwidth as the current 2.0 version.

According to the Turkish technologiesite Donanimhaber get AMD Radeon HD 7000 gpu’s pci-e 3.0 x16 interface. Pci-e 3.0 is backwards compatible with pci-e 2.0 and has a throughput of 8 gigatransfers per second. The current pci-e 2.0 standard has a maximum speed of 5 GT/s. By overhead reduction, which in 2.0 is present, the actual speed of pci-e 3.0 is twice as high. The available bandwidth per pci-e link in one direction is about 1GBps, while, for example, a video card in a pci-express 16x slot up to 32GBps available.

The specification of pci-e 3.0 is published in late 2010. Initially it was thought that Sandy Bridge E Intel support for pci-e 3.0 would get, but recently published messages that this is not initially the case. Because Intel would not be able the hardware support of pci-e 3.0 adequate testing, the company could have decided at the first release of the X79 chipset for Sandy Bridge E, the pci-e 3.0 technology not to add. This would also the chance of a postponement of the introduction of Sandy Bridge E will be reduced, writes Vr-zone.