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PCI Express 2.0 Standard Finalized
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-01-16 16:13:16 752
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By Gabriel Ikram @ HardwareUpgrade
Through a press release on their website, the PCI Express Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has announced that it has finalized its PCI Express 2.0 specifications. The specifications initially entered the release candidate stage a little over three months ago.
The new PCI Express 2.0 Bus Specification doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s. The PCI-SIG describes this as "by far the most important feature of the PCI Express 2.0 specifications." Doubling the interconnect bit rate increases the aggregate bandwidth of a single PCI Express x16 slot to 16 GB/s. PCI Express 2.0 is also backwards compatible with older versions of the standard, meaning that consumers will still be able to use their older hardware in slots based on the revised standard.
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