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More lanes, more wires, higher complexity, higher cost. Not surprising at all given that the same vendor thought it was fine stratagem to market a midrange ded
by Laforet 4y ago
More lanes, more wires, higher complexity, higher cost.
Not surprising at all given that the same vendor thought it was fine stratagem to market a midrange dedicated GPU with only 4x PCIe 4.0 lanes. They are banking heavily on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts.
- colejohnson66 4y ago> They are banking heavily on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts. It was always a serial bus? PCIe 1.0 was just too slow to handle everything without 16x systems. In fact, 32x slots/cards existed in the server market to make up for the missing bandwidth.
- formerly_proven 4y ago> on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts. PCIe switches used to be far more common before certain things happened in the market and they became uber-expensive. I have a few NICs where, instead of using multi-port controllers, they just used PCIe switches... arguably I/O hubs have probably been the cheapest PCIe switches around for some time now...
- 3np 4y agoStill haven't found anything compelling for PCIe4 but for PCIe3, I had no issues so far with 10Gtek, which are reasonably priced.