How future proof is PCIE 3?

[Mad Season]

l am planning to build a new pc as soon as Ampere arrives. l will get a RTX 3080 together with an Intel i7 10700k. The reason why l choose Intel is because it's just better for gaming than any Ryzen CPU. I don't wanna wait for Zen 3, l don't think it will launch before December, if it won't be delayed.. AMD is very quiet about Zen 3 these days.

 

The only thing l really don't like about the i7 is the fact that it doesn't support PCIE 4. For the moment that is not a big issue. I get a new computer only for gaming, for everything else my current PC (i7 4790k and GTX 1080) is doing fine. Benchmarks have shown that PCIE 4 doesn't give you more FPS at all. Next year DDR5 will arrive, so nothing is really future proof. But my concern is if l get the i7 10700k that l will not be able to upgrade to an RTX 4090 (or whatever they will call it) without being bottlenecked by PCIE 3. Is that a justified concern or will l get bottlenecked by DDR4 before PCIE 3?

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, Mad Season said:

so nothing is really future proof

there you have it

[VeganJoy]

the 2080ti sees a few percentage points less on x8 pcie 3.0 vs x16. so you should be good for the next few generations. ddr4 shouldnt be too much of a bottleneck either as the vast majority of games arent memory limited, especially on intel. plenty of people are still on ddr3 and the cpus are the main bottleneck

[Mad Season]

Thanks for your answers!

 

Nvidia's RTX 3080 is finally coming this month and l will get one for my new PC. Now the RTX 3080 will support Microsoft DirectStorage (for more information: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-io-gpu-accelerated-storage-technology/).

 

This technique will have impact in games performance:

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Object pop-in and stutter can be reduced, and high-quality textures can be streamed at incredible rates, so even if you’re speeding through a world, everything runs and looks great. In addition, with lossless compression, game download and install sizes can be reduced, allowing gamers to store more games on their SSD while also improving their performance.

Do l understand it right, that l only need a motherboard and a SSD which support PCIE 4.0? So l still could benefit with a i7 10700k which doesn't support PCIE 4.0, right? Because the decompression is no longer the job of the CPU. So l still should be fine with Intel 10th gen, or do I miss something?