PCIe Gen4 NVMe on PCIe 3 0 - Performance impact

With the previous generation, the maximum bandwidth available on an slot with its four PCIe lanes was 4GBs, so read and write speeds on

2 PCIe 3 and 4 drives look identical from the outside The difference is the standard in the way they connect to the motherboard, and thus, the

pcie gen 4 in gen 3 slot PCIe 4 is backwards compatible with gen 3, 2 & 1, and you will get at least the same performance from putting a drive in a slot as you

pcie slot meaning PCIe 4 increases the PCIe generation's data transfer speed from 1GBs to 2GBs per lane, giving customers a total of 32GBs in a 16-lane