alt Hacker News> gone are the days of PCIe.
My GPU, NVMe drives and motherboard might disagree.
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aprilnya • today at 1:06 AM
- GPU is integrated into the SoC - Surprisingly, it is possible to plug a drive into a TB/USB port
…so what do you actually need PCIe for?
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The top Mac Studio has six thunderbolt 5 ports, each of which is a PCIe 4.0 x4 link. Each is a 8GB/sec link in each direction, which is a lot. Going from x16 down to x4 has less than a 10% hit on games: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/sbegpb/gpu_in_pci...