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With PCI-Express 4.0 graphics cards and motherboards soon to arrive, UL has released their PCI Express feature test for 3DMark. This latest addition has been designed to verify the bandwidth available to the GPU over a computer's PCI Express interface. To accomplish this, the test will make bandwidth the limiting factor for performance and does so by uploading a large amount of vertex and texture data to the GPU for each frame. The end goal is to transfer enough data over the PCIe 4.0 interface to thoroughly saturate it. Once the test is complete, the end result will be a look at the average bandwidth achieved during the test.
While real-life gaming performance is unlikely to be limited by PCIe bandwidth, the test does provide a repeatable and reliable way to measure PCIe bandwidth across generations and thereby the performance of different hardware configurations. The PCI Express feature test is available now in 3DMark Advanced Edition and 3DMark Professional Edition and is compatible with any system that has a Direct X 12 compatible discrete graphics card. The test will not run on systems using integrated graphics, and on multi-GPU systems, only the primary GPU will be tested. External GPU enclosures are not supported either.
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While real-life gaming performance is unlikely to be limited by PCIe bandwidth, the test does provide a repeatable and reliable way to measure PCIe bandwidth across generations and thereby the performance of different hardware configurations. The PCI Express feature test is available now in 3DMark Advanced Edition and 3DMark Professional Edition and is compatible with any system that has a Direct X 12 compatible discrete graphics card. The test will not run on systems using integrated graphics, and on multi-GPU systems, only the primary GPU will be tested. External GPU enclosures are not supported either.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site