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Glossary: Computer Hardware Basics

PCIe

Also written: PCI Express, PCIe 4.0, PCIe 5.0

PCI Express, the fast bus for graphics cards and NVMe SSDs, built from lanes. Each generation roughly doubles the speed per lane, and mixed generations run at the slower one's speed.

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