• TheRealSeeThruHead@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    i thought it would work liek this
    without ssd on gpu
    slot 1: gpu (uses 8x lanes)
    slot 2: dual ssd bifurcation card (4x lanes per ssd)
    total 2 nvme ssd in 2 slots

    with ssd on gpu
    slot 1: gpu + ssd (4x lanes each)
    slot 2: dual ssd bifurcation card (4x lanes per ssd)
    total 3 nvme in 2 slots

    assuming that the gpu only needs 4x lanes of pcie 5.0

    you get an extra ssd in this scenario which would not be possible without a GPU that natively does PCIE 5.0 at 4x.

    • danielv123@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Nope, if you use the second 16x slot the first only gets 8 lanes due to bifurcation, so no GPU SSD. If on the other hand we got 4x pcie5 GPUs this would make sense. Sadly there are no PCIe gen 5 GPUs yet, so they all use more gen 4 lanes.