Thought it was giga-transfers? Wikipedia says: Version 3.x: 8 GT/s ×1: 985 MB/s ×16: 15.75 GB/s You can plug a 2x200GbE Mellanox Ethernet controller on 2 PCI

Thought it was giga-transfers? Wikipedia says: Version 3.x: 8 GT/s ×1: 985 MB/s ×16: 15.75 GB/s You can plug a 2x200GbE Mellanox Ethernet controller on 2 PCIe3 16x connectors (linked by a bespoke cable) Version 4.0: 16 GT/s ×1: 1.97 GB/s ×16: 31.5 GB/s I think you can also buy eth controllers that will saturate that.