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adrian_btoday at 12:41 PM0 repliesview on HN

You mean 500 GB/s, not Gb/s (actually 537 GB/s).

Unfortunately that does not matter. Even in a cheap desktop motherboard the memory bandwidth is higher than of 16-lane PCIe 5.0.

Therefore the memory bandwidth available to a discrete GPU is determined by its PCIe slot, not by the system memory.

If you install multiple GPUs, in many MBs that will halve the bandwidth of the PCIe slots, for an even lower memory throughput.