On November 18, 2010, the PCI Special Interest Group officially published the finalized PCI Express 3.0 specification to its members to build devices based on this new version of PCI Express.
Летом 2011 года Gigabyte официально представила материнскую плату G1.Sniper 2, построенную на чипсете Intel Z68 и поддерживающую интерфейс PCI Express 3.0.