PCIe lanes are data channels within a PCIe slot, which is used for transmitting and receiving data between the motherboard ...

If so, the top slot likely runs at PCIe x16, meaning 16 data lanes, which is ideal for high-bandwidth add-ins like a graphics card. And if you have a second slot, it likely runs at PCIe x8.

When attached to a motherboard's PCIe x16 slot, a card such as the GeForce RTX 4080 can draw up to 75W from the +3.3V and +12V rails (3.3V x 3A + 12V x 5.5A). This is the maximum amount specified ...

Like Bigfoot or the chupacabra, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 is being spotted in the wild by ravenous GPU buyers ready to ...

The final step on the road to publication has passed, and PCI Express 7.0 is coming to a datacenter near you before long.

The PCIe 5.0 standard is now supported by the best graphics cards (such as the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080) thanks to their PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, the first GPUs to do so. In contrast, Gen 5.0 SSDs (which ...

Asus appears to have made some adjustments to the Q-Release Slim PCIe slots on its latest motherboards, which were previously ...

The ability to bundle multiple lanes to provide less or more bandwidth to specific ports or devices has meant that there was no need for a specialized graphics card slot, using e.g. an x16 PCIe ...

Graphics cards are still taboo, but Sonnet has the first PCIe enclosures for Apple Silicon with TB5 on offer. There are four ...

and only two leading graphics cards on the market to use the PCIe x16 port at the time of writing. Consequently, PCIe 5.0 compliant components are considerably more expensive than their PCIe 4.0 ...