According to Reg Hardware , PCI SIG has completed development of version 2.0 of the base specification of the standard PCI Express. As a result, we managed to double the signaling speed from 2.5Gbps to 5Gbps, which allowed us to reach a speed of 16Gbps on the x16 interface.
PCIe 2.0 is declared compatible with PCIe 1.1, so older video cards can also work with computers equipped with new interfaces. Intel is going to release the first PCIe 2.0 chipsets in the Bearlake family in the next quarter of this year.