Nvidia RTX 3080: PCIe 4.0 vs 3.0 scaling analysis

1. Introduction2. Testing Methodology3. 3DMark Synthetic4. Control5. Death Stranding6. The Division 27. Far Cry New Dawn8. Gears 59. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint10. Horizon Zero Dawn11. Metro Exodus12. Middle Earth: Shadow of War13. Red Dead Redemption 214. Shadow of the Tomb Raider15. Total War Saga: Troy16. RTX On - Control17. RTX On - Metro Exodus18. RTX On - Shadow of the Tomb Raider19. Performance Summary (15 Game Average)20. Closing Thoughts21. View All Pages

Gears 5 is a third-person shooter video game developed by The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One. It is the sixth instalment of the Gears of War series, and is the second Gears of War game not to be developed by Epic Games.

Engine: Unreal Engine 4. We test using the Ultra preset, with Best Animation Quality (instead of Auto), DX12 API.

The performance trend in Gears 5 isn't that different to Far Cry. Here, Intel's gaming superiority at 1080p comes to the fore again, with our 10900K system outperforming the AMD systems by 14%. There is a single FPS difference between AMD with PCIe Gen4 vs with Gen3, too, but that'd be well within margin for error.

At 1440p, the Intel test system is still providing better results than our PCIe Gen4 data, though the margin has shrunk to 7%. Lastly, at 4K, there's just a 3FPS difference between the results, regardless of CPU and PCIe bandwidth.

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