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Sol33t303 t1_jdgy4ue wrote

Reply to comment by QuietGanache in The Framework Laptop 16 promises the “holy grail” of upgradable graphics. by SUPRVLLAN

>Thunderbolt tops out at 40Gb/s, PCIe gen 4 x16 tops out at 32GB/s

Last I knew GPUs don't use nearly that much PCIe bandwidth if your not SLI-ing or something.

It has it available, but doesn't use it.

Could become more relevant as directstorage becomes a thing though.

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QuietGanache t1_jdh4eez wrote

That's reasonable, I hadn't considered where the textures and geometries are coming from.

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