Sandy Bridge supports PCIe 3.0

[VortX]

Some more info on the upcoming Sandy Bridge for those that haven't already seen it.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17846/1/


"Sandy Bridge does have monolithic integrated graphics and CPU but it still cares about external graphics. The next generation Intel CPU has support for PCIe 3.0.

Currently at least the mobile version supports PCIe 16X which should be enough even for two graphics cards in two times 8X mode. All these features are integrated in the CPU and there is increasingly less chipset features that are still out of the CPU.

The PCIe 3.0 support is integrated in the Sandy Bridge and so is the direct routing to EC. Intel also has a feature called De Muxed EDP, something that provides concurrency with discrete graphics, all meant for reduction in discrete card power consumption.

All in all Sandy Bridge definitely looks like a huge step forward. "

 

[milkinc13]

PCIe 3.0! version 2 hasn't been fully utilised as yet. new cards on the horizon

 

[nightmare99]

The initial Sandy Bridge platform will be the replacement for socket 1156 mainstream platforms, it is unclear when the high end parts will come.

 

[theforce]

Any specifications on this? I have the impression that that PCI-E 2.0 offers up to 150W to the GPU; would be nice to power even performance cards with no need for additional cables.

 

[solway]

Any specifications on this? I have the impression that that PCI-E 2.0 offers up to 150W to the GPU; would be nice to power even performance cards with no need for additional cables.

of course that would be nice, however reality might make your motherboard melt to the bottom of the case

but additional cables to power the mobo to juice the gpu.