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Journeyman III
‎10-29-2021 02:19 AM

Will Ryzen 3 3200g play nicely with M.2 SSD 2TB NVMe?

I want to get M.2 SSD 2TB with NVMe support, but I'm not sure will it work peoperly with my CPU, because it's already a bottleneck for my GPU, I don't want to get unpleasant surprises after installing.

(I'm still saving money to get new CPU, so now i can get new CPU or SSD, i decided to get SSD because my current drive is damaged, this means longer i wait - more data will be lost)

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ryzen_type_r
Challenger
‎10-29-2021 07:20 AM

The 3200G's PCIe configuration is 8+4+4 - 8 lanes for external graphics, 4 lanes for NVMe, and 4 lanes to the chipset.

These lanes are all PCIe 3.0, so if you installed a PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive, you will be limited to PCIe 3.0 throughput which is half of 4.0's.  But unless you are doing something that needs ridiculous I/O bandwidth, PCIe 3.0x4 is more than fast enough for typical desktop usage. 

 

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ryzen_type_r
Challenger
‎10-29-2021 07:20 AM

The 3200G's PCIe configuration is 8+4+4 - 8 lanes for external graphics, 4 lanes for NVMe, and 4 lanes to the chipset.

These lanes are all PCIe 3.0, so if you installed a PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive, you will be limited to PCIe 3.0 throughput which is half of 4.0's.  But unless you are doing something that needs ridiculous I/O bandwidth, PCIe 3.0x4 is more than fast enough for typical desktop usage.