Honest question coming from a point of consumer-thinking ignorance: With GPU makers putting out x8 cards on PCIe 4.0 and the heat issues with PCIe 5.0 SSDs, what practical nonenterprise uses are these speeds going to have?

  • fwgx@f.fwgx.uk
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure I even care, I just want it!
    A 10TB NVME running at PCIE 7 X16 would feel like actual magic. Stuff would load before you’d even lifted your finger up off the mouse. I can imagine that processors no matter what they are would become the bottle neck and not the IO. Bring it on

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      1 year ago

      That would be faster than the RAM on most systems!