SN500 SSD - Dashboard software shows different interface speed

Dear all,I purchased a brand new SN500 500GB SSD for my Lenovo V310-15isk laptop which supports M.2 SSD with PCIe 3.0 x2. Then I installed onto the SN500 the new Windows 10 1903 Pro x64 with a clean install (UEFI USB drive used, format NTFS via Rufus). However, I notice that WD Dashboard software, in the Interface Speed section, the following are indicated:

SSD Capability: PCIe 3.0 x2
Connection PCIe 3.0 x1

Can someone give me an answer on what is going on? The laptop drivers are okay, nothing missing, latest updates.

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These photos show the problem. The 4K random read/write is lower compared to my previous SATA Samsung 850 Evo. Does someone has a proposal? Many many thanks

bro67 said:

That is because your laptop is only a x1 PCIe3 interface.

Thank you for the reply bro67. According to the spec sheet of this model Lenovo V310-15isk, which you can see it over the internet just google it, it is clearly mentioned PCI Express 3.0 x2 or SATA 6GB/s for the M.2 SSD drive connection. So the motherboard supports both.

bro67 said:

It may be able to support that device, but the chipset is set by the factory to only be an x1.

Thanks bro67 for the answer. Even then I should get similar results with my previous 850 Evo Sata 3. These are worse and with "these" I mean the 4k random ones...The Evo was 45 read 140 write in mb/sec