Daily Tech News 12 June 2025

• PCI SIG has released the final specification for PCIe 7.0, and is busy working on PCIe 8.0. (Liliputing)
  
  PCIe 7.0 runs is twice as fast as PCIe 6.0, which is twice as fast as PCIe 5.0, and so on. Even a single lane of PCIe 7.0 will keep your RTX 4090 happy.
  
  PCIe 6.0 isn't shipping in devices yet, though test rigs are showing up, and PCIe 5.0 graphics cards only appeared six months ago. So don't expect the new slots soon - although PCIe 5.0 motherboards did reach the market surprisingly quickly.

• Speaking of PCIe 5.0 don't buy an 8GB graphics card. (YouTube)
  
  Unless it's very cheap. The Radeon 9060 XT and Geforce 5060 Ti both come in 8GB versions, but this has already become the bottleneck for game performance. With the 9060 XT you have 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 so it at least tries to keep up, but if you're on a budget you might not have a PCIe 5.0 motherboard in the first place, which would cut that bandwidth in half.
  
  And if you only have x8 available on the main slot because you have something else plugged in, by half again.
  
  Which is bad.
  
  And if you don't care about game performance, buy something cheap like the trusty RX 580.
  
  
  
• If you have enough memory, though, this isn't a problem at all. (TechPowerUp)
  
  These guys tested the RTX 4090, and PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 4.0 x8 don't bottleneck this card at all.
  
  If you drop all the way back to PCIe 2.0 for some weird reason, you're still losing only 8% of performance even with this high-end card. The slowdown only become significant when you slow the interface even further.
  
  It's all about the memories.
  
  
  
• Canva now expects you to cheat on your job interview. (The Register)
  
  Half of its staff cheat on a daily basis, so this is now the baseline requirement.
  
  
  
• Meta is offering $2 million salaries to AI developers and still losing staff to other companies. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Uh.
  
  
  
• The recipients of the CHIPS grants are now mired in state and local approval processes. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Your government at work.

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