The data throughput that a PCIe x1 v 3.0 lane can provide is _________.

PCIe is now standardized in five major versions: 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0. A single bidirectional lane in each of the five variants operates at a data throughput of 250 MBps, 500 MBps, about 1 GBps, approximately 2 GBps, and nearly 4 GBps, respectively. Each PCIe slot can support up to 16 lanes, with the number of lanes denoted by x1, x4, x8, or x16. (The letter x is pronounced by.) As a result, a PCIe 3 x1 slot can handle up to 1 GBps of bandwidth.