PCI Express 2.0 based NVIDIA graphics card to be ready by October 2007
PCI Express 2.0 based NVIDIA graphics card to be ready by October
According to information gathered, NVIDIA based DX10 cards 8500GT, 8600GT, 8600GTS, 8800GTX will come with new variations which sport a PCI Express 2.0 interface by October this year.
The PCI Express 2.0 specification extends the data rate of PCI Express to 5GT/s (5GHz) in a manner compatible with the existing PCI Express 1.1 specifications that support 2.5GT/s (2.5GHz) signaling. There are a number of improvements made to the protocol and software layers of the architecture – a product of more than three years of design experience by the PCI-SIG members.
Currently, the Intel P35 chipset already supports the PCI Express 2.0 spec. Upcoming new chipset AMD RD790 will also support this new spec.