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PCIe Gen 3 vs Gen 4

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Hi,

 

Title says half of it. Would you sacrifice a lot of performance if you used a PCIe Gen 4 GPU (eg. RTX 3000) on a Gen 3 motherboard? I'm currently looking to upgrade my little beast of a potato.

 

Currently thinking between that or lowballing a RTX 2080 Ti or a GTX 1080 Ti...

 

Thx!

 

NHL.

 

PS: I'm gaming on 1080p 60Hz :( but gonna upgrade soon to 1440p 144Hz!

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You can detect a tiny difference in benchmarks but it makes no real world difference. Nothing to worry about.

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A couple outlets keep saying yes based on some testing that hardware unboxed did. 

 

I'm gonna rewatch the video on it now but if I recall it had more to do with cards rather than pcie3 vs 4 bandwidth. 

 

Like it was a very specific scenario I think.

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8 minutes ago, lololohahaha008 said:

Hi,

 

Title says half of it. Would you sacrifice a lot of performance if you used a PCIe Gen 4 GPU (eg. RTX 3000) on a Gen 3 motherboard? I'm currently looking to upgrade my little beast of a potato.

 

Currently thinking between that or lowballing a RTX 2080 Ti or a GTX 1080 Ti...

 

Thx!

 

NHL.

 

PS: I'm gaming on 1080p 60Hz :( but gonna upgrade soon to 1440p 144Hz!

it's mostly only a concern for ampere. gl hunting for a card 😆

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10 minutes ago, lololohahaha008 said:

PS: I'm gaming on 1080p 60Hz :( but gonna upgrade soon to 1440p 144Hz!

Amature. I play 720p 60.

I could use some help with this!

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Wait for benchmarks that test 3000 series on PCIe 3 vs 4

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Ok so I thought this was the first PCIe 3 vs 4 video they did regarding the 5500xt.

 

I'm getting a 3090 when available.

 

So for me it looks like I'll have a brand new 10700k and gigabyte z490i aorus ultra for sale

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Ok thank you @porina, @jasonc_01, @xg32, @TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp, @cpm9 for your anwsers! Gonna wait for benchmarks and see what AMD has in their pockets 👀👀 (if they have any... idk?)

 

2 hours ago, xg32 said:

gl hunting for a card 😆

Thx! Price are still high here in MTL, but FYI:

- 1080 Ti: 550$

- 2080 Ti: 900$

 

There has been some post from people like us, that know the real value of the 2000 cards, on Kijiji warning others to not buy 2080 Ti at high price 😂😂😂. See below!

 

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Laptop: Apple MacBook Pro 15 (2019) #regret 😂 (2.3GHz Intel i9 | 32GB 2666MHz DDR4 | AMD Radeon Vega 16 | 1TB SSD)

Peripherals: Logitech G810 | Logitech G305 Wireless

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