30-series was only the 3050 on x8, but 40-series it was 4060 and 4060 Ti (all three 4.0). I’d be surprised if it was x16, since Nvidia likes to cheap out on these things more and more over the years
Right but the impact is not as detrimental compared to a pcie gen 4x4 card on a gen 3 motherboard.
Like it’s not great but it could be worse. Tbh if I was on a gen 3 system, I’d appreciate a newer motherboard and CPU over a new gpu. Especially taking into consideration that an i9 9900kf gets beaten by a Ryzen 7 5825u on benchmarks.
A PCI-E 4x4 card would run on gen 3 at x4, cutting performance in half from a gen 4x4 connection.
CPU is not quite as critical for 1440p under 120fps. At 4K the CPU is almost irrelevent. There will be a difference from CPU but single but not a visual difference if it’s at least on Haswell or Coffee Lake
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30-series was only the 3050 on x8, but 40-series it was 4060 and 4060 Ti (all three 4.0). I’d be surprised if it was x16, since Nvidia likes to cheap out on these things more and more over the years
Gamers Nexus recently made a video about GPU “shrinkflation”: https://youtu.be/2tJpe3Dk7Ko
It’s a neat comparison of Nvidia GPUs over the years.
The 4060 and Ti is PCI-E 4.0x8 which equals PCI-E 3.0x16.
If base 5060 comes in PCI-E 5.0x16, that means it runs at full speed. I would buy that as a gift for someone.
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That being said, the x8 cards were mostly okay on pcie gen 3 systems. Problem is the halved bandwidth.
A PCI-E 4.0x8 GPU in a 3.0 motherboard slot will run the GPU at 3.0x8 speeds.
Right but the impact is not as detrimental compared to a pcie gen 4x4 card on a gen 3 motherboard.
Like it’s not great but it could be worse. Tbh if I was on a gen 3 system, I’d appreciate a newer motherboard and CPU over a new gpu. Especially taking into consideration that an i9 9900kf gets beaten by a Ryzen 7 5825u on benchmarks.
A PCI-E 4x4 card would run on gen 3 at x4, cutting performance in half from a gen 4x4 connection.
CPU is not quite as critical for 1440p under 120fps. At 4K the CPU is almost irrelevent. There will be a difference from CPU but single but not a visual difference if it’s at least on Haswell or Coffee Lake