A PCIe gen 7 1x slot has roughly the same data rate as a gen 3 16x slot.
Let me guess what that much bandwidth can ever be used for? AI 😑

A full gen 7 16x can transfer 242 GB/s. WTF!

It's a lot! Local GPU memory throughput is insane as well

Like just rendering a game with deferred rendering can easily take 100+ GB/s just to read/write the render targets to vram

Nowadays the top GPUs have a mem throughput of like 1-2 terabyte per second. It's insane

Also DRAM is kinda slow in contrast. Normal DDR4 has a throughput of like 10-20 GB/s

"Soooooo" slow :P

@12bitfloat DDR4 is ancient tech too :P

Wait until you see the result between AMD and IBM. Soon we will have a semi quantum GPU at home...

@12bitfloat I still have an old GPU from nearly 20 years ago which has a prominent DDR3 on it ;P