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What happens if the Radeon RX 6500 XT is installed in a PCIe 3.0 slot? Tests show that you have to sacrifice performance

As you know, the Radeon RX 6500 XT in absentia does not please potential buyers not only with 4 GB of memory and a narrow bus, but also with the number of PCIe lanes. There are only four of them, that is, we are talking about PCIe 4.0 x4. Does this affect performance if the adapter is installed in motherboards with an older interface?

As you can see, it does. The option of using the novelty in a PCIe 2.0 slot is not particularly relevant, but there can obviously be a lot of users who will use a card with PCIe 3.0. And in this case, the performance will drop by more than 10%. And this will automatically make the new product even a little slower than the GTX 1060 6GB.

At the same time, the source believes that performance suffers when using PCIe 4.0, but we cannot verify this in any way.

Thus, if the fears of many about a relatively small amount of memory and a narrow bus as a whole were not justified, then it is definitely worth thinking about the PCIe interface.

What happens if the Radeon RX 6500 XT is installed in a PCIe 3.0 slot? Tests show that you have to sacrifice performance