Will RTX 2080 run normally at PCIe x8 ?

[healthyboy]

I recently bought a SATA Expansion card, which requires to be installed in a PCIe x8 to run at full potential, now the problem with my mobo (Aorus z390 Master) is that the x8 PCIe slot where I installed the SAS card shares Bandwidth with the x16 slot where my AORUS RTX 2080 Xtreme is installed, so now the x16 slot runs at x8, and I was wondering how would that affect the performance of the VGA Card, does it need the full 16 lanes to run with optimum performance ?

[Semper]

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus

 

Give that article a read, it'll tell you a bit about what's going on.

[5x5]

Not by much but future more powerful cards may be affected. X8 is the minimum for a modern GPU.

[healthyboy]

1 hour ago, Semper said:

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus

 

Give that article a read, it'll tell you a bit about what's going on.

Thanks alot, that was helpful.

[healthyboy]

1 hour ago, 5x5 said:

Not by much but future more powerful cards may be affected. X8 is the minimum for a modern GPU.

True, the link shared by Semper shows that there's almost no performance difference.