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A comment on PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track For 2025. Parent comment

Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by loeg on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:10PM (#39935236)
PCIe 5.0 x8 has the same throughput as PCIe 4.0 x16, FWIW. So the x8/x8 configuration is very reasonable.
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Re:PCIe 7.0 Draft 0.5 Spec: 512 GB/s over PCIe x16 On Track ... by elabajaba on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @12:25PM (#39981066)
Sure, but outside of a few SSDs (that aren't worth buying currently, need to wait for the 2nd gen pcie 5 controllers to tame their power draw), what consumer (or enthusiast) hardware is actually using PCIe 5 right now? If you slot 2 4090s into those x8/x8 5.0 slots, they'll "only" run at x8/x8 4.0 speeds.
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