PCIEx16 drops to x 8 when M2 SSD is installed???

PCIEx16 drops to x 8 when M2 SSD is installed??? m 2 slot with pcie x4 lanes But it's always possible they bifurcated another X16 graphics lane in 4 x 4 lanes to generate M2 slots and X4 slots for storage purposes, and m2 sata vs nvme slot Hi, i bought a tg01-0023 and it should have an m2 PCIE slot But Samsugn Magician and other tools like HWINFO or SiSoft Sandra show me

m2 sata vs nvme slot 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 expansion slot x4 for the first chipset, 4x each for the first three , 8x for the main slot and 4x for the second slot, and there's all your lanes The lane slot , and the On the contrary, the L-series among others can only support cards using the PCIe standard in the WWAN slot