UL Benchmarks has announced that the first PCIe 4.0 benchmark test will be coming to 3DMark later this Summer. In case you weren’t aware of, the new PCI Express 4.0 interfaces provide up to twice the bandwidth of PCI Express 3.0 and thanks to its higher bandwidth, games can transfer more data, reduce loading times, and support more complex scenes.
According to the team, the 3DMark PCI Express feature test is designed to measure the bandwidth available to your GPU over the PCIe interface. This benchmark test will help you compare bandwidth across PCIe generations with a test that’s quick and easy to use.
The PCI Express feature test will be coming to 3DMark this summer. It will be available as a free update for 3DMark Advanced Edition and for 3DMark Professional Edition customers with a valid annual license.
Last but not least, UL Benchmarks released the first screenshot from this upcoming benchmark test that you can find below!
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“…reduce loading times, and support more complex scenes”
At what resolution does that actually become a factor though? Native 8K, perhaps?
I’ve not followed this topic closely but it was my impression that games don’t even come close to saturating PCIe 3.0’s available bandwidth whereby any issues with texture pop-in and the like are down to the limitations of the game engine, storage media, CPU and/or GPU, i.e. everything other than PCIe bandwidth.
Lets say you have to load/replace the full 11 GB of frame buffer on my 1080TI. How long time does that take in PCIe 3.0 ?
Just to take an actual usecase, although it is rare all 11 GB is used. But it’s there, so …
Nice, now we can finally have those lush thicc fields of grass we’ve all been missing
It would be better to have a game engine what would use all that power
Well this is one way for 3dmark to easily take money from all the AMD fan persons. Good smart business move in my opinion. And yes I know you’re going to say they’re just trying to get a jump on things because it’s going to be mainstream in the near future. Yes.
And I get it. I love benchmarking crap out of everything I have too. ?