PCIe 5 NVMe SSDs won't take off until the second half of 2024, predicts Phison CEO K.S. Pua. According to a report published by DigiTimes, Pua admits that the next generation of SSDs will most likely be overshadowed by their predecessors — PCIe 4 SSDs — for the next year or so.
The PCIe 5 standard, introduced for consumers with the launch of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4 platforms, aims to provide a significant boost for bandwidth-hungry components such as graphics cards and storage devices. We've seen the best PCIe 4 SSD drives, which are capable of 7GB/s transfers, totally eclipsed by the first commercial PCIe 5 samples — the Sabrent Rocket X5 is touted to achieve 14GB/s.
