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?
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?
I was thinking about how ~24 lanes would start feeling a lot more generous, but I also feel like narrowing lanes per slot would mean faster obsolescence. Let’s say I get a PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD in two years that survives long enough for 6.0 to be mainstream on a new board … but x2 is now standard for SSDs to share the lanes better overall. Isn’t that now effectively a 5.0 x2 drive?