The PCIe 5.0 tax: Intel's Z990 chipset for Nova Lake runs hotter and uses more power despite shrinking
5d 17h ago by lemmy.world/u/Alphane_Moon in hardware from www.techspot.com
Why does a desktop PC need that many PCIe 5 lanes from the chipset? A GPU and a couple of SSDs can connect directly to the CPU. Nobody is running multiple GPUs in SLI anymore. Most other devices that you would use with a desktop probably only support PCIe 2 or 3.
couple of SSDs can connect directly to the CPU. Nobody is running multiple GPUs
Well, the answer is probably AI lol
There's only 24 lanes on Intel
16 for GPU
4 for m.2
4 for chipset (USB 3/4, wired/wireless networking, Sata III, and additional m.2 all share the same bandwidth from these 4 lanes)
AMD has 28, but it's 8 lanes to the chipset iirc.