PCIe 3.0. Anyone?

KOS-MOS

KOS-MOS

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At the current moment, I think it's not worth it. Unless you're running 3-4 cards at once across an extremely large resolution PCI-E 2.1 works fine for now. Possibly in a year or so maybe. Personally, I see the APU gaining faster speeds better then PCI-E 3.0
 
Sharkey

Sharkey

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KOS-MOS said:
At the current moment, I think it's not worth it. Unless you're running 3-4 cards at once across an extremely large resolution PCI-E 2.1 works fine for now. Possibly in a year or so maybe. Personally, I see the APU gaining faster speeds better then PCI-E 3.0
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No crap, it's right on the die; latency is going to be leagues better. I wouldn't expect APUs to beat GPUs in power any time soon, though I doubt that's what they're aiming for.
 
KOS-MOS

KOS-MOS

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Yeah, but the latency is still there from the travel distance from the GPU to the CPU. APUs narrow that to as little as possible, that's why I think APUs will reach faster speeds.
 
Roman

Roman

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PCI-E 3.0 has more throughput, but what about real-world usage? lpN and I were talking about this last night and decided that sticking a newer GPU into a 2.0 slot would probably have no discernable difference for now.
 
KOS-MOS

KOS-MOS

Uncharitable Spy
Roman said:
PCI-E 3.0 has more throughput, but what about real-world usage? lpN and I were talking about this last night and decided that sticking a newer GPU into a 2.0 slot would probably have no discernable difference for now.
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^^ This
 
lpN

lpN

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Roman said:
PCI-E 3.0 has more throughput, but what about real-world usage? lpN and I were talking about this last night and decided that sticking a newer GPU into a 2.0 slot would probably have no discernable difference for now.
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By the time 3.0 is even useful, the nvidia gtx 600 series might be obsolete.
 
PsychoRealm

PsychoRealm

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Roman said:
PCI-E 3.0 has more throughput, but what about real-world usage? lpN and I were talking about this last night and decided that sticking a newer GPU into a 2.0 slot would probably have no discernable difference for now.
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Got MB with 3.0 slot today at work. Will perform some testing if I have a chance.
 
Roman

Roman

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Stress tests will make sure it works.

Benchmarks will show what it could do.

Games will show what it actually means to us.
 
Roman

Roman

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"Yes, this is work related."
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