Single Gtx 770 PCI Express Gen 3 16x vs 8x does it matter?

[Slampig]

Hello

I'm building my rig and i've got a quick question. As the title states: Does it practically matter where i put my single GTX 770? PCI Express Gen 3 16x or 8x? I know i could make it easy and just take the 16x slot but it would visually look better if i would put it into the 8x slot :lol: (First world problems i guess) So is there any noticeable performance drop?

Thanks for the replies.

[Tim Drake]

16x

[SeanAngelo]

Put it in the 16x slot.

[Minzo]

From what I have read you will experience no difference while gaming. Don't take my word for it though.

[C_Mike]

Simple Answer No.

 

With Gen3 PCI-E, there is no benefit of 16x over 8x for gaming

[Slampig]

As i thought there seem to be different opinions on that

[Judahnator]

It makes no difference.

 

Linus has a video where he ran two GTX 580's in SLI in both 16x/16x and 8x/8x. There was little/no difference between the two.

 

If you were talking about server-grade RAID cards or 10Gbps network, the difference in PCI lanes can be huge. But for graphics cards, not so much.