Quote from: jstefanop on May 29, 2019, 06:14:58 PM

Quote from: tenebriscaelum on May 29, 2019, 09:08:41 AM

Quote from: nitrobg on May 29, 2019, 06:42:00 AM

The PCI-E extenders can run at PCIE 1.0 X1 with no hashrate drop. What makes you think that you will benefit from PCIE 4.0? Cheesy

In current technology and algorithm yes, it will not benefit from it, but what I am saying is that in the future if developers adapt and make improvments can this technology be beneficial?

The benefits of PCIE 4 come into play with stuff like offloading heavy computation to an FPGA/ASIC type device (like the Acorn)...since you can now offload heavy compute tasks twice as fast between the GPU and secondary device through the PCIE bus. So for heavy memory bound algorithms like most of the GPU centric ones you can have the GPU do what its good at and handle the large memory intensive parts of the algorithm, and then offload the compute heavy rounds to a FPGA/ASIC device. This will significantly reduce the power consumption of the GPU and give a hash rate boost, and the speed ups will be compounded due to the bandwidth increases between the GPU and secondary device over PCIE 4.

So in theory the hashrate can be boosted twice with less power consumption in the GPUs or secondary devices, though it will depend on case to case basis of the users. The only thing that I am worried about is the motherboard integrity as they already mentioned that it will draw more power up to 15w so that the chipset can supply power to the PCIE, specially that in mining the rigs are working 24/7.