Does a PCIe 3.0 x4 connection bottleneck a GTX 1050ti ?

[aripa_fulgerului]

Will a PCIe 3.0 x4 connection bottleneck somehow a GTX 1050ti ?

MOBO: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B250M-PRO-VH/Specification
CPU: https://ark.intel.com/products/97453/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G4600-3M-Cache-3_60-GHz
GPU: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1050/

The motherboard has a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot running at x4. The CPU has 12 PCIe lanes. Will this bottleneck a GTX 1050ti ?

 

[Hellfire13]

There is no bottleneck between that cpu/gpu combo. They are perfectly capable of driving each other flawlessly.

 

[ryzenlover2017]

I don't believe that what the poster is asking, hellfire.

Edit: I'm sorry... I must have misunderstood the question 🙂

 

[Hellfire13]

Bottleneck means when one component is not capable of matching up with the performance of another and PCIE lanes has nothing to do with it in this case, unless you are using riser cards and overloading the lanes with too many expansions. Do some research before coming to conclusions.

 

[dontlistentome]

That motherboard has an x16 slot and two x1 slots. So x4 function shouldn't be a worry.

edit: M.2 storage is at x4, maybe that's what you saw

 

[Karadjgne]

In some programs like gpu-z, it'll show x4 at idle because some gpus will 'eco' down to x4 usage at idle, but not ramp up to full x16 capacity until needed. To test, run gpu-z and then run something graphics demanding in a separate window. Gpu-z should then show the loaded clock rates and pcie usage.

But no, the 1050ti will have a very hard time filling pcie 3.0 x4 bandwidth. Pcie 2.0 x4 would be a problem.

 

[aripa_fulgerului]

Thank you all for the feedback.