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adrian_btoday at 6:09 PM1 replyview on HN

10 Gb/s Ethernet interfaces work fine on 10 Gb/s USB.

Both interfaces have almost the same raw bit rate (in both cases "10 Gb/s" is only an approximation, but the differences between the true bit rates and 10 Gb/s are negligible, unlike for "5 Gb/s" USB, where the data bit rate is only 4 Gb/s).

The USB protocol has a slightly higher overhead than the Ethernet protocol, so the throughput of an Ethernet 10 Gb/s interface attached on 10 Gb/s USB will be a little lower than that of a PCIe NIC, but the difference is negligible, of only a few percent.


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preisschildtoday at 7:32 PM

RTL8159 10GbE usb adapters seem to require USB3.2 Gen2 x2 and this seems to only have gen2