A Deep Dive into PCIe Lane Values of PCIe NVMe Cards

PCIe x4 vs x16 for single NVMe SSD speed increase? m 2 slot with pcie x4 lanes The CPU does indeed have 16 lanes However the Chipset has additional PCIe lanes to manage devices aside from the GPU such as the SSD Z270 has 24 m2_1 slot Current motherboards have multiple slots Some of those slots share PCI lanes with the PCIe slots In the one you mentioned it appears that

m2 sata vs nvme slot ; 22mm x 30mm, x2 or x4 lanes PCIe running the NVMe command set May be BGA mounted on MobileTablet LaptopPC boot Server boot ; 22mm x 80mm x4 lanes