[Dragon_One]

Would a Core i7 8700K, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, and a PCIe 3.0 x16 bottleneck a single RTX 3080?

Do I have to upgrade to the next-gen CPU's and chipsets when they come out for PCIe 4.0?

[webdev77]

Nobody knows yet. Benchmarks not yet available.

[shreder]

I don't think it will be a bottleneck per say. But if you had a faster CPU you would get more frames of course.

[Yac1ne]

Wait for the 3rd party benchmarks, only then we can tell

[bοxxy]

I'm pretty sure PCIe is backwards compatible with PCI 3.0 and PCI 4.0, however, you would only get PCI 3.0 speeds while using a PCI 4 GPU and I'm not entirely sure if and how much it will limit your GPU/framerate.

Here's an interesting video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC8V4OauGk0

I guess we wait.

[You Just Got Sarged]

Nobody knows yet. Benchmarks not yet available from reviewers. We can only go off what Nvidia says which they said nothing about this yet.

[Yunatic_500]

Yeah there's only 1% difference in performance if we compare gaming with PCI 3 vs 4.

I hope there's minimal difference when the 3000 series comes out so we don't have to upgrade our CPU/MoBo.