4 ms·
> Intel keeps the PCIe bus slow and limits the number of IO lanes that an Intel CPU supports thus ensuring that GPU’s are always dependent on an Intel CPU to se
by 21 9y ago
> Intel keeps the PCIe bus slow and limits the number of IO lanes that an Intel CPU supports thus ensuring that GPU’s are always dependent on an Intel CPU to serve their workload
I was looking into building a multi-GPU machine for ML and was very confused as to why the latest Intel CPU has less PCIe lanes than the previous one, it didn't made any sense to me. Those sneaky Intel bastards...
- dingo_bat 9y agoLet's hope AMD's threadripper really offers 64 lanes.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- zokier 9y agoIntel products are heavily segmented. Did you do your comparison within the same segment?
- arnon 9y agoThey want you to buy the expensive Xeons, or higher end i7s to get the proper amount of PCI lanes.