Need help with upgrades

[Freddy]

In line with the release of the 3000 series people have begun to say that you might need a pci-e 4.0. 

I was looking at the 3080 for an upgrade and don't have a 4.0 pci-e slot. 

Then I looked into the fact that Intel don't support 4.0 but some of the motherboards have it ready.

 

So my question is how much bottleneck are we looking at with a 3.0 slot. Is it even worth choosing Intel if upgrading since they don't support it yet?

 

 

[HumdrumPenguin]

2 minutes ago, Freddy said:

In line with the release of the 3000 series people have begun to say that you might need a pci-e 4.0. 

I was looking at the 3080 for an upgrade and don't have a 4.0 pci-e slot. 

Then I looked into the fact that Intel don't support 4.0 but some of the motherboards have it ready.

 

So my question is how much bottleneck are we looking at with a 3.0 slot. Is it even worth choosing Intel if upgrading since they don't support it yet?

 

 

Steve from Gamer Nexus released a video just about it a couple days ago. Search for it on YouTube and you'll see. The difference is minimal, to the point it doesn't matter.

[jj9987]

KitGuru also ran benchmarks and on Intel boards in some tests, the CPU seems to have a slight upper edge, which negates the need for PCI Express Gen4 at this moment.

 

https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/dominic-moass/nvidia-rtx-3080-pcie-4-0-vs-3-0-scaling-analysis/all/1/

[Freddy]

thank you for the answers