Which AMD motherboard that supports 2xM.2 NVMe at full speed

Apr 19, 2018
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So I'm buying Ryzen 2700X. But I would like to buy a motherboard that can support two SSDs in M.2 NVMe slots to run at full speed and not share bandwidth with other components. I will use one graphics card only (no SLI/CrossFire).

What would you recommended?

Thank you for the reply Barty1884. Basically if these are the limits then the bandwidth should be sufficient if the read/write speed of Samsung 960 PRO is 3.5GB/s and 2.1GB/s respectively. Or am I missing something here?
 
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While most AM4 boards have dual M.2 PCIe slots (1x from CPU, 1x from Chipset when paired with Ryzen CPUs)... the one from the CPU is x4 Gen 3.0 but the one from the chipset is PCIe x4, Gen 2.0

Gen3 x4 is theoretically 32GB/s whereas Gen2 is *only* 16GB/s.

In real-world use, outside of benchmarks, it's unlikely to be noticeable but doesn't get you the "full speed" you desire.


PErhaps X470 boards will have 2x Gen3 x4 M.2 slots.... but there's not detailed documentation that I can find for any of them yet.

Barty1884

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While most AM4 boards have dual M.2 PCIe slots (1x from CPU, 1x from Chipset when paired with Ryzen CPUs)... the one from the CPU is x4 Gen 3.0 but the one from the chipset is PCIe x4, Gen 2.0

Gen3 x4 is theoretically 32GB/s whereas Gen2 is *only* 16GB/s.

In real-world use, outside of benchmarks, it's unlikely to be noticeable but doesn't get you the "full speed" you desire.


PErhaps X470 boards will have 2x Gen3 x4 M.2 slots.... but there's not detailed documentation that I can find for any of them yet.
 
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