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A comment on PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track For 2025. Parent comment

Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by redleader55 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:22PM (#39933348)
PCIe is a pretty complicated protocol based on messages. Using this for RAM would mean the CPU and everything will be required to speak this protocol. Using PCIe for RAM will also have impact on latency, which is undesired.

Speed is not always the only thing.

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Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by Quarrel on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:28PM (#39933439)
> Speed is not always the only thing.

or perhaps more accurately, bandwidth is not the only goal.

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Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by alexgartrell on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:32PM (#39933476)
Or perhaps more accurately, throughput is not the only goal.
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Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by cogman10 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:49PM (#39933700)
Throughput, latency, cost. Pick 2.
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