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I do totally agree about the relative merits of bandwidth vs latency. However, I also still think GT/s is generally accepted as an abbreviation for gigatransfer
by ZiiS 2y ago
I do totally agree about the relative merits of bandwidth vs latency.
However, I also still think GT/s is generally accepted as an abbreviation for gigatransfers per second and that the PCIe spec is assuming it as such.
I also note you have had to pull in lots of additional specifications to describe the bandwidth of the complete Link supporting my assertion it is not a pure function of the GT/s.
- eqvinox 2y agoI think we're having some communication/understanding issues, but that's OK. To be clear my main issue with GT/s is that even the PCI SIG doesn't agree with itself and uses the term in conflicting ways (see discussion in sibling thread.) As far as I can research, GT/s is a "commoner's unit" that someone invented and started using at some point, but there is no hard reliable definition of it. Nowadays it seems to be used for RAM and PCIe (and nothing else really), though some search results I found claim it was also used for SCSI.