alt Hacker News- GPU is integrated into the SoC - Surprisingly, it is possible to plug a drive into a TB/USB port
…so what do you actually need PCIe for?
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pjmlp • yesterday at 6:52 AM
To have lots of them plugged together, high end audio cards, electronics integrations, disks with having cables all over the place.
gizajob • yesterday at 7:11 AM
Things that aren’t graphics cards, such very high bandwidth video capture cards and any other equipment that needs a lot of lanes of PCI data at low latency.
wpm • yesterday at 5:13 AM
Video capture
I/O expansion
Networking
High-end Macs have moved to PCIe 5.0 speeds in their internal drives. Thunderbolt 5 is not fast enough to get the same performance from external ones.
Thunderbolt is also too slow for higher-end networks. A single port is already insufficient for 100-gigabit speeds.