[SOLVED] 3080 in a PCI-e Gen 3 slot?

[d0zerPC]

I just noticed the new Nvidia 30 series are PCI-e Gen 4, wondering if anyone knows how they would perform in a gen 3 motherboard?

 

[boju]

wondering if anyone knows

Not yet.

If want some sort of idea look at 5700XT PCIe 3 vs 4.

 

[sizzling]

It’s a hotly discussed topic with opinions ranging from it will make zero difference to it will be significant. Ultimately we won’t know until the benchmarks are in. Given Intel don’t have a 4.0 platform yet it will be interesting if there is a difference.

 

[d0zerPC]

It’s a hotly discussed topic with opinions ranging from it will make zero difference to it will be significant. Ultimately we won’t know until the benchmarks are in. Given Intel don’t have a 4.0 platform yet it will be interesting if there is a difference.

So if you look here:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Family

The Ultra High Performance that Gamers Crave, powered by NVIDIA Ampere Architecture.

www.nvidia.com

Under performance you notice they tested this on a system with these specs:
Highest Game Settings, 4K , i9-10900K, 64GB RAM, Win 10 X64. RTX ON is RT + DLSS. (10 Series is RT only, not capable of DLSS).

Can a 10900K be run with PCI-e Gen 4??

 

[sizzling]

So if you look here:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Family

The Ultra High Performance that Gamers Crave, powered by NVIDIA Ampere Architecture.

www.nvidia.com

Under performance you notice they tested this on a system with these specs:
Highest Game Settings, 4K , i9-10900K, 64GB RAM, Win 10 X64. RTX ON is RT + DLSS. (10 Series is RT only, not capable of DLSS).

Can a 10900K be run with PCI-e Gen 4??

Very good point, it’s pcie 3.0

 

[d0zerPC]

Well that's good to hear. I'm on a 9900K and I really did not want to build a whole new rig for the 3080

 

[boju]

Were you wondering about performance or compatibility? If was regarding compatibility, the 5700XT is a pcie4 card and is running on pcie3 motherboards.

9900k will have no issue running 3000 series, probably the following gen as well.

 

[TerryLaze]

I just noticed the new Nvidia 30 series are PCI-e Gen 4, wondering if anyone knows how they would perform in a gen 3 motherboard?

Did you also notice the new tech that allows huge amounts of data to be transferred directly from disk to vram?using much less CPU power to boot?

The whole argument about pcie x is about getting stuff to the card as fast as possible, that's the only thing that might change some performance metric and now it's pretty much obsolete,if the direct storage API/nvidia's counterpart can move more data to Vram faster than pcie 4 without it ever possibly could than pci gen will be irrelevant.

Except for scientific or workstation or whatever other workloads,although I guess they would use it there as well.