The popular hardware monitoring tool AIDA64 has recently released the latest 6.92.6600 update, which is the first to bring support for AMD Zen 5 (Ryzen 8000) processors and PCIe 6.0 SSDs.
The update log is as follows:
Intel Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids benchmarks support AVX-512 acceleration
Further optimization of AVX-512 Julia and Mandel benchmarks
Improved support for AMD Zen 5 processors
MSI CoreLiquid AIO LCD support
Supports PCI Express 6.0 controllers and devices
GPU details for AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT, RX 7800 XT, RX 7900 GRE
FMAC method for FLOPS and IOPS GPGPU benchmarks
GPU details for Intel Xe and Xe Max
Supports multiple Intel GPUsIn June this year, PCI-SIG finalized the draft version of PCIe Gen7 (PCIe 7.0) v0.3. According to the design, its bandwidth is doubled again compared to PCIe 6.0, and the speed is increased from 64 GT/s to 128 GT/s. It also uses PAM4 modulation signaling, encoding mode is 1b/1b, backward compatible with all previous PCIe versions.
▲Image source PCI-SIG
According to the official timetable, PCIe 6.0 is expected to be put into actual use next year, and the target release time of version 1.0 of PCIe 7.0 is 2025.
▲Image source PCI-SIG
