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Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5 by mikepurvis on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:36PM (#31474532)
Does an older device still occupy a whole lane right to the processor though? Or does the motherboard/chipset multiplex that onto a shared 5.0 lane into the CPU?

My read of it is the second, but I'd be happy to be shown wrong on this.

Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5 by zamadatix on Sunday May 22, 2022 @11:51PM (#31475175)
Only the CPU direct lanes are PCIe 5.0 and, being direct, none of that gets multiplexed. You either use all of a direct slot's assigned lanes at 5.0 speed or you miss out on that bandwidth.

Everything else not CPU direct (wired and wireless networking, SATA storage, non-primary USB ports, and 3 PCIe 4.0 addon cards) is connected via the chipset(s) which connect back via a single shared PCIe 4.0 x4 connection to the CPU. These are multiplexed but nothing here is using PCIe 5.0 bandwidth and even just 1 busy slot alone off this collection is able to consume the entire uplink bandwidth.