PCI Express Today

“There has been a great deal of controversy surrounding the PCI Express bus and many other technologies released around the same time. For some reason most people were expecting PCI Express to dramatically boost the performance of today’s high-end graphics cards. Despite the fact that there is no evident bottle-necking of the AGP 8x bus, people were still expecting a bus that offers twice the available bandwidth to make a difference. Of course for today’s graphics cards the PCI Express bus offers us nothing!”