PCIe 2.0 vs 3.0

[Grim reaper 999]

hey guys if i buy a mobo with a pcie 3.0 slot will the gpu perform any better than the PCIe 2.0???

[Electronics Wizardy]

the extra bandwidth won't help with gpu's at all.

 

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Grim reaper 999 said:

hey guys if i buy a mobo with a pcie 3.0 slot will the gpu perform any better than the PCIe 2.0???

[aisle9]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

 

So you're telling me that a GTX 1080 Ti on an AM1 board isn't such a bad idea after all?

[Guest]

Just now, aisle9 said:

So you're telling me that a GTX 1080 Ti on an AM1 board isn't such a bad idea after all?

If you are not worrying about bottlenecks but worry for PCIE generations then you set your priorities very very wrong.

[Blebekblebek]

AM1 only limited to 4x not 8x nor 16x

Also why would you pair 1080 with AM1 platform, that's stupid.

[Grim reaper 999]

Just now, Blebekblebek said:

AM1 only limited to 4x not 8x nor 16x

Also why would you pair 1080 with AM1 platform, that's stupid.

I have a gigabyte h 61 (pci 16 x 2.0) with a asus 1060 will it work fine then?

[Blebekblebek]

Just now, Grim reaper 999 said:

I have a gigabyte h 61 (pci 16 x 2.0) with a asus 1060 will it work fine then?

yes

[Grim reaper 999]

Just now, Blebekblebek said:

yes

okay then no worries thanks for the help mate

[aisle9]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

If you are not worrying about bottlenecks but worry for PCIE generations then you set your priorities very very wrong.

SHUT UP YOU, I WILL MAKE THIS WORK! 

2 minutes ago, Blebekblebek said:

AM1 only limited to 4x not 8x nor 16x

Also why would you pair 1080 with AM1 platform, that's stupid.

[Blebekblebek]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

SHUT UP YOU, I WILL MAKE THIS WORK! 

I don't see anyone laughing

Telling a joke on internet when no one expecting it, it's like telling people to download a car.

or smell my butt over VOIP.

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

3 minutes ago, Grim reaper 999 said:

I have a gigabyte h 61 (pci 16 x 2.0) with a asus 1060 will it work fine then?

Yeah man, there is almost no noticeable difference in PCIE-2.0x16 vs PCIE-3.0x16 in gaming. In really bad cases the difference might be 1.5%, but most of the time it'll be more like 0.2%. The only exception to this rule I know of is Ryse Son of Rome, where PCIE-3.0x16 benched 9% higher than PCIE-2.0x16 on a GTX 980 in a test techpowerup did. But that game is lousy anyways, and it is the only game I have ever heard of with anything even close to that difference between PCIE-2.0x16 and PCIE-3.0x16.

 

To give another illustration of how little the difference is, most people who run two Nvidia gpus in SLI do it with them both running PCIE-3.0x8, which is basically the same as PCIE-2.0x16 when it comes to bandwidth. Only the higher end Intel Extreme cpus (eg 5930k, 5960x, 6900k, 6950x, etc) have enough PCIE lanes to run two gpus at PCIE-3.0x16.

 

tl;dr version: you're golden running a GTX 1060 on a PCIE-2.0x16 slot.

[aisle9]

Just now, Blebekblebek said:

I don't see anyone laughing

Telling a joke on internet when no one expecting it, it's like telling people to download a car.

or smell my butt over VOIP.

 

You mean to say you've never downloaded a car? Wow, you're missing out. I got a new pickup truck just by downloading Ram.

[SteveGrabowski0]

I should also note I ran my GTX 970 on an H81 board with PCIE-2.0x16 before moving to a Z97 board with PCIE-3.0x16 and there was absolutely no difference in graphical performance. The only difference was my Z97 board supports higher speed RAM, so moving from DDR3-1600 on my H81 to DDR3-2400 on my Z97 board helped out my minimums in cpu heavy games like Fallout 4 and GTA V. But that has nothing to do with PCIE.