DirectStorage works with PCIe 3.0 SSDs and means you need *less* bandwidth, not more. It's good to future proof, but 7GB/s is already beyond PS5 speeds.
I/O customizations for chipsets are the current future. Obviously as seen PS5 loading speed what is currently out is enough, the difference is in the custom I/O solution. WHich we are seeing the beginning of with V-CACHE. This will bleed over to GPU's, may or maynot be in RDNA 3 what ever they have planned beyond that is where the total shift will happen.
GPU's with V-CACHE, and a new custom pipeline.
That with direct storage will put PC back to where Sony is on their custom solution. But we wont see these cards till 2023-2024.
i thought Intel would be de facto my choice because they would push pcie 5.0 first
of course i will choose amd if they both have it around the same time.
You need to read up on some things. PCIE GEN 5 is not the be all, PCIE GEN 4 has hardly been around super long and has not hit full saturation yet. There's a reason AMD is not focusing on it currently. Everything they showed to me shows they know where the future is. Gen 5 PCIE is more or less just the new standard for PCIE. AMD when they have PCIE GEN 5 will have all their customizations like V-CACHE reiterated on, along with their GPU's to go along with GEN 5 saturation and chipset changes.
To me this is more important than just having more PCIE lanes.
More later this year and into next we will start hearing more about V-CACHE or something similar for GPU's.