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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by throwaway48476 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:06PM (#42627462)
In the server space there is gen 5 cabling but not gen 5 risers.
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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by throwaway2037 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:25PM (#42630220) 

    > gen 5 cabling
Do you mean OCuLink? Honestly, I never thought about how 1U+ rackmount servers handle PCIe Gen5 wiring/timing issues between NVMe drives (front), GPUs/NICs (rear), and CPUs (middle).
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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by throwaway48476 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:51PM (#42630369)
OCuLink has been superseded by MCIO. I was speaking of the custom gen 5 cabled nvme backplane most servers have.
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