RTX 3080 PCIe 3.0 X470 & PCIe 4.0 X570 performance differences between with 2700X & 3700X – Is there a bottleneck? Should you upgrade your motherboard and CPU?
In my post benchmarking the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity on a X470 motherboard with Ryzen 7 2700X the results I saw were considerably lower than what most reviewers had posted. This was to be expected, with me using lower-spec hardware elsewhere. With the RTX 3080 being so powerful and PCIe 4.0 based, many…