The Tsi384 four-lane PCI Express (PCIe) to PCI-X Bridge is pin compatible with similar PCIe bridges while, reportedly, delivering higher performance, lower latency, better throughput, and lower power ...
PCIe 4.0 sounds exciting—it’s the first big change to the interface since 2010. But as always, the questions of who can get it (and who can’t), and who really needs it, are more nuanced than you’d ...
When PC gamers seek motherboards, they focus on numbers such as that of the M.2 slots, USB ports, or even the PCIe slots. Choosing a motherboard for your CPU means you'll be looking at many boards ...
When you're looking at motherboard features for your next PC build or upgrade, one of the most important specifications is how many PCIe lanes it supports, thanks to the combination of CPU and chipset ...
No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...
Most of this information originally appeared in our review of Intel's Broadwell NUC. Since it's of general interest to anyone buying or building a PC, we're posting this slightly edited and expanded ...
PCIe 5.0 has a lot of bandwidth to tap, but it’s been a year with nothing to use it with. With the introduction of Nvidia’s PCIe 4.0-only graphics card and stories of upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSDs needing ...
AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs are coming to take down Intel’s Xeon workstation chips, offering up to 64 cores, 128 threads, 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4, and up to 2TB of RAM. All four chips feature the same ...
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is built with PCIe 5.0 x16 support, offering up to 64 GB/s of bandwidth. This is a notable step up from the RTX 4090, which runs at PCIe 4.0 x16 with 32 GB/s bandwidth.
PCI Express is a technology that consistently makes headlines, with new specifications boasting ever-improving performance regularly appearing in the news. It may come as a surprise, then, to learn ...