High-end Radeon RX 7000s reportedly feature PCIe Gen 5.0 support

AMD Navi 31 GPUs based on RDNA 3 graphics architecture will reportedly offer PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 support for the series High-end Radeon RX 7000.

The latest information on the high-end Radeon RX 7000 lineup of graphics cards comes from Kepler_L2, which has been investigating RDNA 3 GPU information through various drivers and patches. Now, the same leaker reports that AMD’s top-of-the-line Navi 31 GPU It will have support for PCIe Gen 5.0 x16. I wouldn’t be surprised to see AMD first on the PCIe Gen 5.0 standard considering they were early adopters of PCIe Gen 4.0 with the RX 5000 and PCIe Gen 3.0 with the HD 7000.

The New Radeon RX 7000 It will have support for PCIe Gen 5.0 x16.

PCIe Gen5 16x for Navi31 pic.twitter.com/f53270NXpE

— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) May 4, 2022

The biggest benefit PCIe Gen 5.0 provides is the double transfer rates from 64 GB/s (16 GT/s) to 128 GB/s (32 GT/s).

It makes sense to have hardware ready for PCIe Gen 5 within this year, as AMD is releasing multiple platforms that will take advantage of the new protocol. Just yesterday, AMD confirmed that its Zen 4-powered desktop and laptop CPU chips will have PCIe 5.0 support, so having this technology in RDNA 3 GPUs will improve the interface, with better transfer rates.

That said, AMD is working on multiple RDNA 3 card models, we’ll have to see which one comes with PCI Gen 5.0.