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Hi all, as per thread title: what’s the practical difference I might see running a 3xxx GPU on a 4th gen PCIe slot at x16 speed, vs running it at x8 speed? Thanks! 

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Ok thanks mate that’s very useful. The reason for asking is that I’m about to run an ASUS Strix z590-e motherboard with Intel 11900k, and this motherboard has two gen 4 PCIe slots for NVMe, but, if I use both slots then I can’t run the GPU at PCIe 4 x16 speed, it’ll have to be reduced to x8 as it apparently shares bandwidth with the second NVMe.
Which is a bit odd, unless of course ASUS were not worried about the hit to the GPU performance, which from the article would appear to be negligible. Cheers![]()
If you want PCIe v4 for everything, you need Ryzen and X570 board.Which is a bit odd, unless of course ASUS were not worried about the hit to the GPU performance, which from the article would appear to be negligible. Cheers![]()
Hi all, as per thread title: what’s the practical difference I might see running a 3xxx GPU on a 4th gen PCIe slot at x16 speed, vs running it at x8 speed? Thanks!![]()