Vega 20 will have support for pci

Everything seems to indicate that the Vega 20 silicon will be much more than a 7nm version of Vega 10. This new graphic nucleus was already presented by Lisa Su at Computex 2018 showing interesting improvements, which are now joined by the supposed use of the PCI Express 4.0 interface.

Latest AMDGPU driver for Linux suggests Vega 20 will have support for PCI-Express 4

Vega 20 will come with four HBM2 memory stacks, adding a total of 32 GB with a 4, 096-bit interface, which will offer a bandwidth that doubles that of the current Radeon RX Vega, although we are not excited, since for now will come to gaming.

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A close look at the latest AMDGPU driver for Linux includes PCI-Express gen 4.0 link speed definitions, which offers 256 Gbps of bandwidth per address on an x16 bus width, double the current PCI-Express gen 3.0 specification. Vega 20 got its first indication of PCI-Express 4.0 support in a slide leak during CES 2018.

These slides suggested that the first product based on Vega 20, a silicon that has already been announced , would be launched in the second half of this year. They also indicated that the third generation of EPYC processors will come with PCI-Express gen 4.0, which could be a major innovation in the Zen 2 architecture.

We will have to wait a little longer to know if Vega 20 finally includes PCI-Express gen 4.0 support, which would be an important novelty in this first AMD GPU manufactured at 7 nm. It is possible that the first products based on Vega 20 will be announced at the AMD event in July, and there is less to answer.

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