No, a second NVMe drive won't consume your GPU lanes.
No, a second NVMe drive won't consume your GPU lanes.
Depends on whether you m.2 is attached to the cpu or the chipset. If chipset, no. Need to know what video card you’ve got though to know if it’s even an issue. If you video card does pcie4, then the 8x won’t matter at all. Nvidia amphere is pcie3 only though.
It's a common mix-up. Ampere isn't PCI-E 3; it corresponds to PCI-E 4.
Which motherboard are you using? The instructions will explain how to assign lanes to each slot.
I want to set both the CPU M.2 and the chipset M.2 on my 2070 Super.
You're all set—your main port will always receive full x16 bandwidth no matter what other ports are in use. There aren't enough slots or connections available on your board to cause any issues. The top M.2 slot uses four CPU lanes and the bottom uses four from the chipset. Because any CPU you can fit will have 20 PCIe lanes, it can handle both the top slot and the full x16 main slot with complete speed. The chipset also offers eight lanes, but only six are available from your board (the two x1 slots plus the lower x4 M.2), so no restrictions there. For more details, check out the manual here: https://download.msi.com/archive/mnu_exe...95v1.5.pdf
Data seems inconsistent. I believed amphere was limited to PCIe 3, but it can definitely support a 3090 Ti and even a 4090. Most units would work, though. I recall someone stating amphere was only for PCIe 3, but the message might have been misinterpreted.
Gen 3 works just fine with Amphear, yet Amphear itself backs Gen 4. It’s the only card that could possibly count for anything is the 3050, which relies on x8, but even then it doesn’t really need to worry about. The player has a Turing GPU, which only covers Gen 3 PCIe support.
It seems like a small adjustment in expectations. Wikipedia appears to have clarified my point, though the impact remains limited as long as there are sufficient live pins on the cards. This affects some budget AMD boards—those with x16 connectors will function properly only if they use PCIe 4.0, but not PCIe 3.0 due to bandwidth limits. If AMOPA offers PCIe 4.0 support, they’ll work with x8 as well, provided it’s PCIe 4.0. It seems this issue may become more discussed when cheaper new-gen boards drop, since AMD continues releasing chipsets that are PCIe 3.0 only. I’m also curious about how many motherboards have x16 slots but only eight lanes connected—believed to be less common than thought.