Vertical GPU Mount Speed Limitation?

[LukeMurtagh1995]

Hi all,



Just a quick question. I'm getting ready for my new build once the new 30 series GPUs come out but I have a question. I had planned to use Lian Li's Vertical GPU Mount in my Lancool II Mesh for aesthetic reasons, until I realised it has a speed limitation of 8Gb/s. How much would this affect the performance of my GPU? I would like a vertical mount simply because I like the look of it but I certainly don't want to sacrifice performance. For reference the card I'm looking at is the 3080 and the CPU it'll be paired up with is a i9-10900K, and I will be gaming at 1440p.



Thanks!

 

[LukeMurtagh1995]

There is an article on techpower up which says 2080ti saturates pci-e 3 x8 which is 8 gb/s

Okay, thanks. Is it possible you could explain what exactly you mean by 'saturate'? I'm 99% sure I know but I just want to make sure I'm correct. I would read the article but I can't seem to find it.

 

[LukeMurtagh1995]

I have a vertical mounted gfx card in a lan-li case and the ribbon cable can reach all pcie slots
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipNRyb5jbruRo3EKnYvsuLUnCropqopFJI7o6YWS

Thanks. I wasn't thinking that would be an issue however. Since the riser cable is capped at 8Gb/s, would that not be only half the speed of the top PCIe slot?