The hard NVMe M2-size storage devices supported by the PCI Express 5.0 interface will be sold in November this year. This was reported by AMD representatives during the presentation of the Ryzen 7,000 processors.
Remember, in addition to the Ryzen 7,000, AMD introduced the Socket AM5 platform and recalled new chipsets for motherboards. The PCIe 5.0 interface is built not only into the Ryzen 7000 processor itself, but also into four chipsets for the AM5 platform: X670 Extrame, X670, B650 Extrame and B650. However, the current Ryzen 5000 processor models and the Socket AM4 platform support only the PCIe 4.0 interface. Their competitors in the 12th generation of Intel Core processors are already supported by the PCIe 5.0. However, none of the SSD manufacturers have released yet with the support of this interface.
The situation should change once Ryzen 7000 is sold. According to AMD, hard drives supported by the PCIE 5.0 interface are prepared by at least 12 different producers, including Commercial, Apacer, ASUS, Corsair, Gigabyte, MSI, PNY and Segate. They will be available for sale in November this year. All such PCIe 5.0 first-wave reservoirs will be based on the Phison E26 controller. Preliminary data indicate that they will be able to achieve a linear reading and recording speed of about 13.5 and 12.0 Gbyte/s, respectively, and a small-box operation of 130,000 IOPS.
As part of the presentation, AMD did not go into the details of the new chipsets. However, it is known that PCIe 5.0 support for both GPU and SSD will be possible in the extrame system logic packages. At the same time, it is very likely that PCIe 5.0 will not be supported for the B650 chipset. Instead, PCIe 4.0 will be used for the SSD, and all PCIe 5.0 accessible lines will be directed to the graphic subsystem.