Common Buses and their Max Bandwidth PCI 132 MB/s AGP 8X 2,100 MB/s PCI Express 1x 250 [500]* MB/s PCI Express 2x 500 [1000]* MB/s PCI Express 4x 1000 [2000]* MB/s PCI Express 8x 2000 [4000]* MB/s PCI Express 16x 4000 [8000]* MB/s PCI Express 32x 8000 [16000]* MB/s USB 2.0 (Max Possible) 60 MB/s IDE (ATA100) 100 MB/s IDE (ATA133) 133 MB/s SATA 150 MB/s SATA2 300 MB/s SATA3 600 MB/s Gigabit Ethernet 125 MB/s IEEE1394B [Firewire 800] ~100 MB/s*