Rx6600 on pcie 3.0

[1lard]

I’ve found myself having enough to indulge in some pc upgrades and the first thing I want to fix is my motherboard, I just bought the cheapest one (b450m pro II Msi) at the time and now I’m paying for it, I can live with the bad IO and lack of wifi that’s whatever but the pcie 16x is 3.0 and my graphics card is 4.0, I wasn’t able to find any specific benchmarks comparing the 2 with my specific card, as it is, an entry level card from a million years ago. I just want to know if it’s even worth upgrading to a motherboard with pcie 4.0 or if the difference is so subtle with my card specifically where it’s just not worth it and I should focus on something else. I’ll have to upgrade it inevitably when my gpu doesn’t cut it any more, but by the time that comes I’ll probably need a new cpu and socket anyway, so really I only want to change motherboards if the bottleneck is truly diabolical, I personally haven’t noticed any performance issues but then again I have nothing to compare against if anybody could give me a conclusion that would be great.

[podkall]

11 minutes ago, 1lard said:

I just want to know if it’s even worth upgrading to a motherboard with pcie 4.0 or if the difference is so subtle with my card specifically where it’s just not worth it and I should focus on something else. I’ll have to upgrade it inevitably when my gpu doesn’t cut it any more, but by the time that comes I’ll probably need a new cpu and socket anyway, so really I only want to change motherboards if the bottleneck is truly diabolical, I personally haven’t noticed any performance issues but then again I have nothing to compare against if anybody could give me a conclusion that would be great.

Check online what you should be getting approx for RX 6600, if you tried it and it works that's great.

 

There's one "bad news" though, the card might be held back a little bit, not saying 3.0 PCIe is slow, 4090 can run at 3.0 and still be only 1-3% slower than on 4.0.

The problem, is some cards aren't wired 16x, including RX 6600:

 

Your card's interface wires only 8x of the 16 PCIe connections, which might be more noticeable difference in performance.

 

• The good news, is it doesn't stop the GPU from doing GPU things, so you might not really need to swap motherboards, the GPU still will use all it's cores and 8GB of VRAM and ROPs and cache, etc.

 

So it all comes down to whether the card is really hurt on performance or not. And whether you care if it's just 1-5% slower or not, because in real world that difference isn't always big if it's only that much.

[Hinjima]

12 minutes ago, 1lard said:

I’ve found myself having enough to indulge in some pc upgrades and the first thing I want to fix is my motherboard, I just bought the cheapest one (b450m pro II Msi) at the time and now I’m paying for it, I can live with the bad IO and lack of wifi that’s whatever but the pcie 16x is 3.0 and my graphics card is 4.0, I wasn’t able to find any specific benchmarks comparing the 2 with my specific card, as it is, an entry level card from a million years ago. I just want to know if it’s even worth upgrading to a motherboard with pcie 4.0 or if the difference is so subtle with my card specifically where it’s just not worth it and I should focus on something else. I’ll have to upgrade it inevitably when my gpu doesn’t cut it any more, but by the time that comes I’ll probably need a new cpu and socket anyway, so really I only want to change motherboards if the bottleneck is truly diabolical, I personally haven’t noticed any performance issues but then again I have nothing to compare against if anybody could give me a conclusion that would be great.

PCIE 3.0 is fine for a RX 6600.  In some games there will be a little performance loss but nothing worth worrying over at the moment.

 

 

[1lard]

1 minute ago, Hinjima said:

PCIE 3.0 is fine for a RX 6600.  In some games there will be a little performance loss but nothing worth worrying over at the moment.

 

 

How did you find these I looked for like 10 minutes man, cheers

[podkall]

1 minute ago, 1lard said:

How did you find these I looked for like 10 minutes man, cheers

YouTube RX6600 PCIe 3.0 vs PCIe 4.0

 

BTW what's the CPU? It might not even matter what PCIe version you're on with the GPU.

[Hinjima]

2 minutes ago, 1lard said:

How did you find these I looked for like 10 minutes man, cheers

Was fairly easy, but I am used to searching up weird things  

TDLR: Keep RX 6600 and PCIE 3.0 motherboard, play videogames, be happy.

[podkall]

1 minute ago, Hinjima said:

Was fairly easy, but I am used to searching up weird things  

TDLR: Keep RX 6600 and PCIE 3.0 motherboard, play videogames, be happy.

[1lard]

Just now, podkall said:

YouTube RX6600 PCIe 3.0 vs PCIe 4.0

 

BTW what's the CPU? It might not even matter what PCIe version you're on with the GPU.

R5 5500

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, 1lard said:

R5 5500

 

[1lard]

Just now, Hinjima said:

 

Okay witch, cheers x2

[Tetras]

29 minutes ago, 1lard said:

I just want to know if it’s even worth upgrading to a motherboard with pcie 4.0 or if the difference is so subtle with my card specifically where it’s just not worth it and I should focus on something else.

PCI-E 3.0 is fine with that card and if you have a 5500 then you'd have to upgrade the CPU as well (since this only supports PCIE 3.0).

 

I'd wait until you need a new GPU and then do the lot together.