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If you own a PC, the day will eventually come when you'll need to replace your graphics card (GPU), Maybe you just got your hands on Nvidia's beastly RTX 5090, or you made a more mid-range upgrade to ...
Normally, the PCIe generation your GPU uses doesn't matter, as long as the memory usage stays below the GPU's VRAM.In VRAM-starved scenarios, however, PCIe 3.0 suffers the most compared to PCIe 4. ...
To start with, for those wondering what the ‘latch’ refers to, it’s the clip at the back of the PCIe slot that ensures your graphics card is held tightly in the interface.
You can therefore also operate a PCIe 4.0 graphics card on a PCIe 3.0 mainboard. However, the data transfer performance falls back to the lower speed of the host system.
A few hours ago, AMD's Computex 2022 presentation details regarding its Zen 4 architecture and Ryzen 7000 leaked. Now, we have information on the accompanying AM5 socket and the 600-series chipsets.
The PCIe 5.0 power connector is designed to solve one of the biggest, messiest problems with current graphics card power delivery: actually supplying enough power for high-end cards.
Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti was the first GPU to feature the PCIe 5.0 connector, but since there aren’t any power supplies with PCIe 5.0 connectors widely available yet, board vendors ...
In this sponsored article from our friends over at Supermicro, we discusses how deciding on the correct type of GPU accelerated computation hardware depends on many factors. One particularly important ...
I’ve got a Radeon Pro WX4150 4GB MXM-A card from an HP EliteBook (the WX4150 being essentially an RX470) in my mid-2010 27″ iMac, replacing the broken stock Radeon HD 6670. the only niggles ...
From PCIe 1.0 we've seen an effective doubling of peak bandwidth from each successive generation – starting at 250MB/s for a x1 connection and moving up to a little under 2GB's for PCIe 4.0.
This means that the B650E chipset should see higher motherboard prices in the mid-range, but you'll get Zen 4 CPU support, DDR5 memory, and then PCIe 5.0 support for both your GPU and SSD of the ...
New Ryzen 5 8500G and Ryzen 3 8300G only give you two PCIe 4.0 lanes for your SSD, and just four for your graphics card, slowing down performance.