Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5
by zamadatix on Sunday May 22, 2022 @08:32PM
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It should be easily noticeable in benchmarks, after all a even 5% impact can still be called "multiple orders of magnitude" from being comparable to baseline. In double chain I'd be surprised if the impact was any less.
Definitely not expecting end of the world numbers from it but at the same time I doubt many in the high end space are going to look at what that second chipset gives them and say "it's worth adding another PCIe switch in-between my addons for".
Of course you can just use the second x8 worth of bandwidth for drives but I'm not sure that sells having a chained chipset over just adding what you actually want to the first which would now have more open lanes anyways.
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Definitely not expecting end of the world numbers from it but at the same time I doubt many in the high end space are going to look at what that second chipset gives them and say "it's worth adding another PCIe switch in-between my addons for".
Of course you can just use the second x8 worth of bandwidth for drives but I'm not sure that sells having a chained chipset over just adding what you actually want to the first which would now have more open lanes anyways.