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Your GPU's PCIe generation doesn't matter — except when it does

Nvidia and AMD haven't stopped pushing 8GB VRAM GPUs to the masses, but at least there's more awareness than before about the pitfalls of insufficient VRAM. While many users might know what running ...
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3 reasons you shouldn't care what PCIe generation your GPU is using

If you're in the market for one of the latest graphics cards — Nvidia's RTX 50 or AMD's RX 90 — you might be worried about your motherboard supporting the PCIe generation of your GPU. Both the ...
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Splitting all that PCIe 5.0 bandwidth into more PCIe 3.0/4.0 lanes?

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 ...
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PCIe 5.0 is just beginning to come to new PCs, but version 6.0 is already here

The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has finalized version 6.0 of the PCI Express standard, the communication bus that lets all the stuff inside your computer communicate. The new version of the ...