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Nvidia RTX 3080: PCIe 4.0 vs 3.0 scaling analysis

Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is an online action role-playing video game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. The sequel to Tom Clancy's The Division (2016), it is set in a near-future Washington, D.C. in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic, and follows an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division as they try to rebuild the city. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Snowdrop. We test using the Ultra preset, but with V-Sync disabled, DX12 API.

Next up is The Division 2. At 1080p, our Intel test system is 6% faster than the Ryzen 3900XT with PCIe 4.0. Moving to PCIe 3.0 on the AMD system does make a small difference though, but only 2%.

At 1440p, Intel remains 3% faster than AMD, while that margin remains consistent at 4K. AMD's PCIe 4.0 results are 1% better than their PCIe 3.0 results at 1440p, but there's no difference at 4K.

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