PCIe slot dilemma
For anyone who is interested, benchmark results were:
Sequential speeds for the SSD at Gen 2 were both around 1150 MB/s, whereas for Gen 3 it was 2300 MB/s, which is a 100% improvement as expected. Random access wasn't affected nearly as much, with only around a 5% improvement, more pronounced in writing than reading. These results were pretty stable with little to no variance.
That wasn't the case for the GPU. It suffered between 4 - 30% FPS penalty, depending on the benchmark or game. These results were also hard to reproduce, the performance change was different almost every time the game was run. Strangely, even games/software that did not have almost any bus usage suffered the FPS dip.
That let me to conclusion that it is better to keep the GPU in Gen 3 x16, as you recommended me. Thank you for your answers.
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