They are talking about going from a 2 card setup on a P45 motherboard to an X48 motherboard the P45 only supports one 16x or two 8x where as the X48 supports two 16x lanes. The performance gain is less because PCIE 2.0 is double the bandwidth of the old PCIE
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They are talking about going from a 2 card setup on a P45 motherboard to an X48 motherboard
the P45 only supports one 16x or two 8x where as the X48 supports two 16x lanes.
The performance gain is less because PCIE 2.0 is double the bandwidth of the old PCIE