Nvidia equips AD106 and AD107 with 8 PCIe lanes
According to the information leaked in the past, NVIDIA’s next-generation GPU based on the Ada Lovelace architecture will have five models, namely AD102, AD103, AD104, AD106, and AD107. The AD106 and AD107 are for mainstream and entry-level markets.
Recently, Twitter user @kopite7kimi revealed that the number of PCIe lanes of AD106 and AD107 is 8. It is not yet sure whether it is PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 standard. The possibility of the former is estimated to be higher. With the performance and positioning of these two GPUs, whether it is PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0, 8 PCIe lanes have little effect on performance. What may have a greater impact is that users buy graphics cards equipped with these GPUs to use on older systems, for example, the original platform only supports the PCIe 3.0 standard.
AMD has a similar approach in the past two generations of GPUs, both the Navi 14 based on the RDNA architecture and the Navi 23 based on the RDNA 2 architecture, with 8 PCIe lanes. The corresponding Radeon RX 5500 series and RX 6600 series are products for mainstream users.
Players won’t see AD106 and AD107 this year, Nvidia is concentrating on the development of AD102, AD103, and AD104, and the next few GPUs will be seen in the coming months. @kopite7kimi also said that the performance of AD106 is “not very strong”, and the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme score is about 7000 points.
