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Re:PCIe 4.0 will be twice as fast as today's slots by striking on Friday June 09, 2017 @06:27PM (#14525068)
Multi-GPU is kind of a meme for anything besides HPC. Graphical applications currently don't support it very well, if at all. And it means you're basically duplicating the scene across multiple GPUs, which is a lot of money burnt on VRAM.

New PCIe specs will likely only affect data transfer like for storage applications, at least for the time being.

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Re:PCIe 4.0 will be twice as fast as today's slots by nickpsecurity on Friday June 09, 2017 @06:37PM (#14525113)
Maybe networking, too, as some companies built switches for servers out of PCIe or one of those.
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