3000 Series and PCIE Gen 3

[Suka]

Wondering if I need to upgrade mobo which uses PCIE gen 3. With the 3000 series using PCIE 4, will the reduced bandwidth of gen 3 cause any performance hits?

[bmx6454]

afaik, this shouldn't cause any noticeable performance loss.

[TechNurd]

i personally dont think that there would be much of a performance difference. but honestly, who can say anything for sure unless we have the benchmarks

[BTGbullseye]

29 minutes ago, Suka said:

Wondering if I need to upgrade mobo which uses PCIE gen 3. With the 3000 series using PCIE 4, will the reduced bandwidth of gen 3 cause any performance hits?

It will definitely be slower game loading than if you have PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage, and a CPU/Motherboard that supports it. Other than that, we can't know for sure until the card is available for actual testing.