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16 lanes is required unless you are ready to give up 20% gaming performance on latest games. see the side by side comparison below. https://www.youtube.com/wat
by dis-sys 9y ago
16 lanes is required unless you are ready to give up 20% gaming performance on latest games. see the side by side comparison below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=8KOTiee5RqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=8KOTiee5RqA
on top of that, many people want to stream their game video when they play their games on full speed, then a couple NVMe SSDs eat those lanes as well.
- daemin 9y agoBut if you're dropping 50% of the lanes and only getting a 20% speed drop, then it looks like you're not using those 16 lanes to capacity. Logically you'd expect closer to a 50% performance drop.
- dis-sys 9y agoeach Intel upgrade gives you 5-10% performance improvement. 20% is like 3 generations of Intel "innovation".
- daemin 9y agoWhat I'm saying is that if the video card you were using had 16 lanes available and got X performance. Then you took away half the lanes available to graphics card, so now you have 8 lanes available, but performance has only decreased by 20%. Meaning that the game or application was only using a fraction of those extra lanes. So basically it wasn't fully exploiting the hardware available.