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Re:Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are... by FullyFunctional on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:43PM (#20797307)
I cannot follow your argument, so let me give examples: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14729/samsung-preps-pm1733-pc...

Samsung introduced a 8 GB/s SSD specifically for PCIe Gen4. I used to work in the SSD business many years ago and we could _trivially_ saturate PCIe Gen3 x4 but it wasn't economical to go to more lanes. (Bandwidth is easy, latency is hard).

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Re:Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are... by walrus01 on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:36AM (#20797673)
Somehow I mistakenly read the parent comment as pcie 4.0 doesn't matter, and typed a whole bunch of paragraphs in answer to that. Point was that 4.0 and more lanes are a much needed improvement so I actually am in agreement with the parent comment. Oops.
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