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It seems you're right, at least as recently as last year [0] the difference seems very negligible. I had read that it was in 2013 but had assumed increases in G
by diab0lic 9y ago
It seems you're right, at least as recently as last year [0] the difference seems very negligible. I had read that it was in 2013 but had assumed increases in GPU speeds exacerbated the effect.
[0] https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-pe...
- compton_effect 9y agoTo add on, even pcie 3.0 x4 has plenty of bandwidth for a gtx 1080. https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_PCI_Express_Scaling/25.html https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_... This is the same reason why nvidia didn't bother with HBM for the 10 series. Those gpu's do not need that much memory bandwidth and in most cases GDDR5 provides plenty of bandwidth as it is.