x470 Taichi PCIE 4.0

Will this board receive PCIE 4.0 with a bios update? It seems the x470 can support it, I found this on tom's hardware:

"But after speaking with several motherboard vendors here at CES 2019, we've learned that many of them have successfully tested PCIe 4.0 on 300- and 400-series AMD motherboards, meaning that the feature could be enabled with a simple BIOS update, at least partially.

Our sources tell us that after unlocking the feature via a BIOS update, the older motherboards supply a PCIe 4.0 x16 connection to the first slot on the motherboard, but the remainder of the slots revert to PCIe 3.0 signaling rates."

Hopefully we get Ryzen 3000 support along with PCIE 4.0

Gigabyte Enables PCIe 4.0 on X470 and B450 Motherboards (Updated 05-19-19)

From Tom's Hardware: " The company has enabled the option for PCIe 4.0 in the BIOS of its X470 Aorus Gaming Wi-Fi 7 motherboard. That signals that, under some circumstances, the company will likely support PCIe 4.0 on existing motherboards if you drop in a new Ryzen 3000 processor."

Now I'm hoping ASRock has something for us to unlock PCIe 4.0 on x470.

Yes I also hope soon we have news if they will have PCIe 4.0. I'm certain the x470 boards will support the 3000 series CPUs I'm looking to upgrade my 2700x to a 3700x :D

Hello, yes I read that article as well. This is indeed good news, and future proof for when graphics card do ship with pcie 4.0. Now I see the 3800x is part of Ryzen 7 not Ryzen 9 as previously reported. Now I will upgrade to 3800x, to replace my 2700x. It also has really good single core performance which I like as well. Reason I play a lot of the MMO Guild Wars 2 and that game is single core heavy.

Take a look at the Computex coverage of X570 boards. From what I can tell it seems unlikely we will see PCIe 4.0 support on gen1 and gen2 boards. Bare in mind this is based on personal observation, my contacts at ASRock have not provided any info on the matter as yet. Based on the design of the new boards and the need for active cooling on the chipset I get the feeling PCIe 4.0 is pushing the chipset to the limits and as such generates a lot more heat than can be passively dissipated. In addition to that there is also talk about the actual PCB pathing for the slots needing to be within tolerance.

Ryzen 3000 CPU support is going to happen but PCIe 4.0 I get the feeling will not on older generations. That said, the only devices even able to leverage PCIe 4.0 to any degree are ultra high end NVME storage devices. GPUs can't even saturate x8 PCIe 3.0 yet so in other words, they will need to double their bandwidth requirements before they even come close to needing PCIe 4.0 bandwidth. So either GPUs will become less efficient in how they handle data throughput from the GPU to RAM and CPU or we will need to see double the raw performance. It will likely be the first as it will allow GPU designers to forgo a certain amount of optimization in favor of performance upticks. I would hazard a guess that it will be at least 3 generations of GPU from now before we see the need for PCIe 4.0 from mid range up, 2 before we see flagship GPUs come close.