Alienware graphics amplifier

[nextgen187]

I would like Linus to do a review on Alienwares graphics amplifier. I want to know if there is actually a bottleneck and how bad it is. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Well, from what I do know, it uses a PCIe 3.0 x4 connection. But that's not even a bottleneck since the Fury X and GTX 980 can survive on it just fine. You have to go pretty low before high-end GPUs start taking really bad hits.

 

En lieu of that though, there's a review on PC World by former Maximum PC editor Gordon Mah Ung.

[Pendragon]

9 hours ago, nextgen187 said:

I would like Linus to do a review on Alienwares graphics amplifier. I want to know if there is actually a bottleneck and how bad it is. 

There is a 1-4% performance loss running a Titan XP on a 16x slot vs a 4x slot. So basically within margin of error.