PCIe Questions and Answers
Definition of PCIe - answer Peripheral Component Interface Express
What is the latest version of PCIe in general-circulation? - answer Generation 3
What are some of the advantages of PCIe? - answer increased multi-tasking,
provides better bandwidth, better power management, better support for server and
virtualization, supports more multi-cores
What was the predecessor of PCIe? - answer ISA and EISA(Extended Industy
Standards Architecture)
What improvements did the PCIe have over the PCI? - answer PCI used parallel
communication, PCIe develepoed as serial point-to-point tech, allowded the use of
AGP.
How many transfers does 1 Giga-Transfer(GT) do? - answer 1 billion data transfers
a second
How fast can a machine running 8 byte(64 bit) data move on its data bus? - answer
A machine can move up to 8GB/s
Is PCIe backwards compatible? - answer Yes
Can A PCIe versions 1.0 or 2.0 operate on version 3 slot? - answer Yes
What determines the data rate? - answer the lowest device or slot speed.
What is a PCIe Gen 3 Accelerator? - answer 8 GT throughput, Dynamic power
Allocation, best performance with 'lowest power'
What is faster, a software or hardware accelerator? - answer Hardware Accelerator
What is another field would this come hnady? - answer Bio-Medical application
Accelerator.
How fast is PCIe 4.0? - answer 16 GT/s bit rate
Definition of PCIe - answer Peripheral Component Interface Express
What is the latest version of PCIe in general-circulation? - answer Generation 3
What are some of the advantages of PCIe? - answer increased multi-tasking,
provides better bandwidth, better power management, better support for server and
virtualization, supports more multi-cores
What was the predecessor of PCIe? - answer ISA and EISA(Extended Industy
Standards Architecture)
What improvements did the PCIe have over the PCI? - answer PCI used parallel
communication, PCIe develepoed as serial point-to-point tech, allowded the use of
AGP.
How many transfers does 1 Giga-Transfer(GT) do? - answer 1 billion data transfers
a second
How fast can a machine running 8 byte(64 bit) data move on its data bus? - answer
A machine can move up to 8GB/s
Is PCIe backwards compatible? - answer Yes
Can A PCIe versions 1.0 or 2.0 operate on version 3 slot? - answer Yes
What determines the data rate? - answer the lowest device or slot speed.
What is a PCIe Gen 3 Accelerator? - answer 8 GT throughput, Dynamic power
Allocation, best performance with 'lowest power'
What is faster, a software or hardware accelerator? - answer Hardware Accelerator
What is another field would this come hnady? - answer Bio-Medical application
Accelerator.
How fast is PCIe 4.0? - answer 16 GT/s bit rate
