Bofferbrauer2 said:
But only 4 of those 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes are on the CPU, the rest are on the PCH, which is not ideal for the GPU to run efficiently. So the only realistic option for the GPU is to use the PCIe 5.0 lanes. They could use only 8 lanes for it... but I doubt any mainboard producer would want to get attacked for gimping the GPU, so I don't expect any of them to do that. |
They already do it with high end mobos but it's only active if the user chooses to do so. Like if the user has dual GPU setup or single GPU and a ton of SSDs or something. As 8x PCI-E 5.0 has the same bandwidth as 16x PCI-E 4.0, I could certainly see use cases if it takes a while for GPUs to move on to PCI-E 5.0 while storage is already there.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850