POWER9 & Raptors? Oh my! - TalosII Talk & Interview w/ Raptor Computing Systems | Level One Techs

From what I know, that’s not really possible, there are hard limits to how many PCIe devices can be connected without a PLX-style switch, which would increase cost.

On the Talos II, the six PCIe endpoints of the first CPU are used by:

  1. BMC
  2. USB controller
  3. NIC
  4. Storage controller
  5. PCIe x8
  6. PCIe x16

I imagine a Blackbird has the same configuration, although there additionally is audio-output; I imagine it might be through the BMC, which acts as a 2D GPU.

If you want to look at the Talos II diagram, you can expand this quote: