I'm thinking about upgrading my graphics card from an RX 470 to a 9060 XT, but I have a B500M Pro motherboard that only supports PCIe 4.0. Since the 9060 XT is PCIe 5.0, I'm wondering if this will lead to any significant performance loss. Should I go ahead with the upgrade?
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Not at all. Most cards barely saturate PCIe 3.0, let alone 4.0. A mid-tier card like the 9060 XT won’t need PCIe 5.0 even if some high-end cards do.
If you opt for the 16GB version of the card, you're golden. You shouldn't run into any trouble at all!
Will take that in mind, thanks!
You should be fine with maybe a 1% performance hit. I’ve come across that info here and there, but haven’t verified it personally yet.
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From what I've seen, PCIe 3.0 can lose about 1-3% performance, with the worst-case being 4% under heavy ray tracing. So PCIe 4.0 should work just fine.
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You won't have any issues running the 9060 XT on a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot. There's no real performance loss with that setup—plenty of bandwidth for the card!
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