On: I will never need to buy a new computer again

[sitkack]

This is simply not true, the UI speed isn't increasing because of systemic bloat, The Great EnFattening. But the throughput gains are immense.

A single NVME SSD can now push over 10GB/s

Main memory bandwidth is now over 100GB on midrange hardware.

[Tempest1981 → sitkack]

I thought 7GB/s was the max, but you're right! Looks like I need to upgrade to PCIe 5.0!

[sitkack → Tempest1981]

PCIe 7 will blow our minds!

At 512GB/s for an x16 link, that is 32GB/s x1. If SSDs stay with x4 links that is a physical layer throughput of 128GB/s.

https://pcisig.com/blog/pcie%C2%AE-70-specification-version-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55NAeEwEqtQ

PCIe 6 is half of that, but we probably won't see anything in the consumer space until 2026 or 2027. That is probably two Ryzen releases from now. So really, Zen 7 ships for Christmas of 2028 along with PCIe 6 and we get x4 NVMe SSDs with 64GB/s of bandwidth.

[Legend2440 → sitkack]

VRAM bandwidth is over 1TB/s. And it's still a huge bottleneck for neural network inference.