HighPoint has announced they are launching the world’s 1st PCIe 5.0 NVMe AIC card, the Rocket 1608A that can finally unleash the power of both Intel and AMD’s latest desktop platforms.
Compatible with Intel’s 600 and 700 series motherboards as well as AMD’s X670Es, this piece of technology wonder promises 64GBps (Or about 56GBps in a more realistic sense) of transfer speed in Linux or Windows-controlled RAID 0 array that can fulfill any needs, I mean like literally any for a consumer platform – be it games or 8K video recording.
This level of read and write speeds is all thanks to the brand’s PCIe Switching architecture powered by 48-lane Broadcom PCIe 4.0+5.0 switch ICs that bypass I/O requests to the CPU and instead, directly communicate with the NVMe SSDS sitting within the AIC. The card also has bifurcation built directly into it, allowing it to smartly allocate PCIe resources on the fly that make sure you will get the best performance possible at all times.
As with any conventional drive, you can grab one of these and use it in PCIe 4.0 mode for the time being if you’re in the process of upgrading your system. The “chad” AIC can also run at full speed and peak bandwidth with Gen5 x4 or Gen5 x2 interface. That’s crazy.
And if you read the title, then the 64TB capacity figure comes in the form of the 8x M.2 slots on the AIC PCB while the current maximum capacity that is popular with consumers is at 8TB so yeah.
If you need more information, the folks at HighPoint made a page for it and you probably can drop a contact if you’re interested.
