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PCIe 7.0 is on track for a 2025 release, which means SSDs with speeds of up to 60GB/s should be available in the coming years
Just one PCIe 7.0 lane has as much bandwidth as four PCIe 5.0 lanes
More bandwidth will certainly be beneficial for CPU to chipset links, which means multiple integrated devices like 10G networking, WiFi 7, USB 4, and Thunderbolt 4 will all be able to run on a consumer motherboard without compromise. A PCIe 4.0 x16 connection isn't a bottleneck for an RTX 4090, while Nvidia and AMD have no problem offering mid-range cards with x8 links. Currently, if you want to add a new SSD, a lot of the time you're forced to remove the graphics card and take out fiddly little screws to access a slot.
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