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Paul J Forrest
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PCI Speed

Post by Paul J Forrest »

Can anyone tell me the speed of PCI. Apparently USB 2 is 480 Mbit/s and Firewire wire 400 is obviously 400 Mbit/s, so how does PCI compare with this? I've searched the web but to no avail!

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Re: PCI Speed

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Faster. How much depends on which flavor of PCI you are taking about. Think Thunderbolt, and remember PCIe is faster than that.

BTW, this was the first :roll: URL listed when I googled "PCIe Speed":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

Wiki has all you probably need to know, including this: "As a point of reference, a PCI-X (133 MHz 64-bit) device and PCIe device at 4-lanes (×4), Gen1 speed have roughly the same peak transfer rate in a single-direction: 1064 MB/sec." Note that is MB, not Mb.
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