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rayineryesterday at 11:51 PM1 replyview on HN

Sure, but how big of a difference is there? Even inside a desktop PC, you typically have PCIe ports directly off the CPU and ones off the chipset, and the latency for the latter is double. But the difference is immaterial in practice.


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angoragoatstoday at 12:34 AM

GPU performance can be perceptibly slower with TB5 compared to Oculink. Here’s one article showing a 14% difference in one test setup:

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/oculink-outp...