PCI 4.0 vs 3.0 GPU only

[tjrose91]

Wondering if my main gaming setup is being a bottleneck, I'm not worried about PCIE 4.0 for storage as most home users wont see a major improvement on storage I feel I don't need to upgrade to pure NVME for a long time  
I mostly game at 4k and aim for 120hz as I have an Acer Predator 4k 120hz monitor with 144hz capability but don't like the split line in the middle 

 

CPU - 10700k

GPU - 6900xt 

Storage 

1x1tb nvme intel 660p for Boot

2x1tb Sata in Raid 0 for Steam Games mostly

2x10tb Sata HDD in Raid 1 Main Backup

Cooling CPU+GPU (120mm+240mm+280mm Rads) D5 Res Pump

Ram Corsair 3600Mhz 4x8gb ddr4

 

i have a second backup gaming system if i really need to test more for myself

 

CPU 

Ryzen 5600x air-cooled

GPU - Currently a 5700xt air cooled

Ram - Supposed to be 4x4gb 3000mhz but downgraded to 2x4gb as i needed the two extra sticks

Cooling Air

 

[Origami Cactus]

It is only a bottleneck with Radeon 6500XT, all other cards will be fine, even the next gen ones.

[tjrose91]

6 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

It is only a bottleneck with Radeon 6500XT, all other cards will be fine, even the next gen ones.

just came across a new Gamers Nexus Video so it came across my mind, figuring i wont need to actually upgrade for 5 years since i got the CPU 2018 i think upgraded from an 5960x so a 2014 system, GPU i normally transfer to new builds so i can save up for the a new GPU



 

 

[Middcore]

Just now, tjrose91 said:

just came across a new Gamers Nexus Video so it came across my mind, figuring i wont need to actually upgrade for 5 years since i got the CPU 2018 i think upgraded from an 5960x so a 2014 system, GPU i normally transfer to new builds so i can save up for the a new GPU



 

 

 

Yeah like @Origami Cactus was saying, the thing with the 6500 XT is that it's PCIe 4 x4. So if you put it in a PCIe 3.0 slot, it goes down to PCIe 3 x4. Which is way different from a PCIe 4 x16 card in a PCIe 3 x16 slot. 

 

The impact of putting your 6900 XT in a PCIe slot is probably within margin of error. 

[tjrose91]

12 minutes ago, Middcore said:

 

Yeah like @Origami Cactus was saying, the thing with the 6500 XT is that it's PCIe 4 x4. So if you put it in a PCIe 3.0 slot, it goes down to PCIe 3 x4. Which is way different from a PCIe 4 x16 card in a PCIe 3 x16 slot. 

 

The impact of putting your 6900 XT in a PCIe slot is probably within margin of error. 

Right we are already in PCI-E 5.0 in new high end MB's and I'm like unless i switched to Pure NVME storage might be nice for a new retro case build then it be a different story or with LTT petabyte SSD storage solution but most people dont have 1million dollars to spend on such a setup

[jaslion]

17 hours ago, tjrose91 said:

Right we are already in PCI-E 5.0 in new high end MB's and I'm like unless i switched to Pure NVME storage might be nice for a new retro case build then it be a different story or with LTT petabyte SSD storage solution but most people dont have 1million dollars to spend on such a setup

Even then unless you are using your storage as a scratch disk for highly intensive tasks the difference between a good sata ssd and a blazing fast 4.0 drive is next to none in general use, gaming,...