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Will 3000 series RTX cards be bottlenecked by B450 motherboards in anyway?

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1 minute ago, godbae said:

I'm looking to mildly splurge on one of the new cards but I'd like to know if I'd have to upgrade to a motherboard with PCI-E gen 4 as well.

Nvidia says a fast CPU is more important than PCIE 4.0 and that the impact of not having it is minimal

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Q: Will customers find a performance degradation on PCIE 3.0?

System performance is impacted by many factors and the impact varies between applications. The impact is typically less than a few percent going from a x16 PCIE 4.0 to x16 PCIE 3.0. CPU selection often has a larger impact on performance. We look forward to new platforms that can fully take advantage of Gen4 capabilities for potential performance increases. Note also, all benchmarks and performance data on our website and presented by Jensen was from a PCIE 3.0 platform.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-30-series-community-qa/

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I'm looking to mildly splurge on one of the new cards but I'd like to know if I'd have to upgrade to a motherboard with PCI-E gen 4 as well.

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1 minute ago, godbae said:

I'm looking to mildly splurge on one of the new cards but I'd like to know if I'd have to upgrade to a motherboard with PCI-E gen 4 as well.

Nvidia says a fast CPU is more important than PCIE 4.0 and that the impact of not having it is minimal

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Q: Will customers find a performance degradation on PCIE 3.0?

System performance is impacted by many factors and the impact varies between applications. The impact is typically less than a few percent going from a x16 PCIE 4.0 to x16 PCIE 3.0. CPU selection often has a larger impact on performance. We look forward to new platforms that can fully take advantage of Gen4 capabilities for potential performance increases. Note also, all benchmarks and performance data on our website and presented by Jensen was from a PCIE 3.0 platform.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-30-series-community-qa/

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The 3070 probably not, but the higher you go up the stack then the chances are higher.

You'd probably see more bottlenecking from the CPU if you're running a 3600 or lower.

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No.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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6 minutes ago, godbae said:

I'd have to upgrade to a motherboard with PCI-E gen 4 as well.

you'll also need a pcie 4.0 capable cpu, btw

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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