I 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 it

I 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.