[SOLVED] Would my PCie bottleneck a 3050

Brendon_Austin

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I am planing to get a Rtx 3050 for my system and am curious if my cpu would limit its potential since it allows only pcie gen 3.0 .
I am currently running a 3200g integrated graphics and as far as my research goes it only supports up to a 8x pcie connection but my motherboard has 16x slots so would my proccesor bottleneck have a huge performance hit whilst playing or would there be mostly no problems. I mostly play games and dont do any extensive work outside of gaming.
 
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Pcie lanes relates to cpu and how many lanes it supports for a discrete graphics card. This is irrelevant for an igpu since it's not connected to anything being inside the processor. In saying that, all cpus offer full 16 lanes to first pcie slot.

3050 will be a good upgrade over igpu. I wouldn't worry about an imbalance because there wouldn't be and you will see an improvement. Enjoy. Adding a gpu will probably disable igpu so remember to connect video cable to the graphics card directly.

What's your psu?
Hello, Brendon!

The amount of bandwidth available in PCI-E 3.0 lanes is half that of PCI-E 4.0. That said, graphics cards don't use anywhere near the maximum bandwidth available. There have been many tests between PCI-E generations and the impact is usually very minor. Here's a test for a 3050 in 8x PCI-E gen 3 vs gen 4:


In that test worst case scenario was a 7% performance loss, while most of the time it was negligible.
 
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Pcie lanes relates to cpu and how many lanes it supports for a discrete graphics card. This is irrelevant for an igpu since it's not connected to anything being inside the processor. In saying that, all cpus offer full 16 lanes to first pcie slot.

3050 will be a good upgrade over igpu. I wouldn't worry about an imbalance because there wouldn't be and you will see an improvement. Enjoy. Adding a gpu will probably disable igpu so remember to connect video cable to the graphics card directly.

What's your psu?
 
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Pcie lanes relates to cpu and how many lanes it supports for a discrete graphics card. This is irrelevant for an igpu since it's not connected to anything being inside the processor. In saying that, all cpus offer full 16 lanes to first pcie slot.

3050 will be a good upgrade over igpu. I wouldn't worry about an imbalance because there wouldn't be and you will see an improvement. Enjoy. Adding a gpu will probably disable igpu so remember to connect video cable to the graphics card directly.

What's your psu?
Its a Thermaltake Litepower 650w