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NVMe by no means is directly connected to the CPU directly, usually it's connected through at least one PCIe switch.
by mschuster91 3y ago
NVMe by no means is directly connected to the CPU directly, usually it's connected through at least one PCIe switch.
- Rohansi 3y agoIt's harder to confirm for laptops but you can refer to motherboard manuals to see if any of your PCIe-related slots go through a switch or not. For example, my current PC has a PCIe x16 slot, x1 slot, and two M.2 NVMe slots. It says everything is integrated into the CPU except the x1 slot which goes through the motherboard chipset. I don't see why any laptop would make NVMe go through a PCIe switch unless the CPU doesn't provide enough lanes to support everything supported by the motherboard. Even the at the lowest end, a dual core Intel Core i3-10110U (laptop processor from 2019) has 16 lanes from the CPU which could support at least one NVMe without going through a switch.