On 10/9/2011 3:31 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:PCIe will handle full duplex 1 gigabit no problem.The claim is true.My day job is LAN netwwork performance. One lane of PCIe Gen 1 will barely handle line rate, but it does handle line rate.
Yeah, PCIe x1 is 2 Gbits, which is just enough for full duplex. Since it's a serial bus (unlike PCI's shared/arbitrated bus) with dedicated bandwidth, you can count on the 2 Gbits at all times too.
Tony