Will my Radeon RX 5600 XT run in PCI-E 4th gen mode with a PCI-E 3rd gen NVMe SSD?

[RJARRRPCGP]

I just ordered a B550 motherboard for PCI-E 4.0, and possibly SAM.

For information, the package arrived on the 8th, but I haven't even got the Newegg box opened up yet.

 

[Ruru]

Yes it will. The SSD doesn't affect it.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Yes it will. The SSD doesn't affect it.

Thank you. I'm about to open the box, it doesn't look HDS'ed on the outside. (HDS=the package deliverer in Ace Ventura Pet Detective, who kept kicking the package, LOL)

 

[skizzo]

I just ordered a B550 motherboard for PCI-E 4.0, and possibly SAM.

For information, the package arrived on the 8th, but I haven't even got the Newegg box opened up yet.

You are leaving important info out as this is dependent on the specific motherboard I believe, not just the chipset.

Generally if the motherboard has a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for a GPU then that is what the GPU will run at unless you populate the additional x16 slots which usually drops the slot the GPU is in down to x8.
NVMe drives can take up SATA ports or PCIe lanes the point a PCIe slot becomes "unavailable" if there is not enough PCIe lanes available anymore, and I suppose could also drop the link speed down to x8 as well.

But regardless, fear not because your GPU, or anyone's GPU at that, does not need PCIe 4.0 to do anything

Yes it will. The SSD doesn't affect it.

Idk how you came to that conlusion with such little info



for example from a MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK Gaming Motherboard manual. M2 drives can and will impact SATA ports, and PCIe slots/lanes available. But again, I thought this changes per motherboard and not just the chipset. Still, based on this info below alone, I don't think your comment is accurate. Also looks like it quite important for the OP to state what CPU they will populate it with since it supports ones that would default to PCIe 3.0 with no option to use PCIe 4.0.......not that they really need 4.0 for a GPU

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I ordered the AsRock B550 PG Velocita:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B550 PG Velocita/index.asp

Also I have a Radeon RX 5600 XT, but I have gen 3 NVMe SSDs.

For the link above, you must drag&highlight then copy&paste, due to the board software not liking spaces, like it's the 1990s, LOL.

 

[skizzo]

Get to know your motherboard manual, specifically the PCIe slots and M2 slots sections will tell you everything you need to know!

I should amend my comment, technically what maenard said is accurate, because you were asking specifically about Gen3 vs Gen4 speeds and installing a M2 doesn't do that here....but now we know exactly which motherboard rather than guessing.

From a quick glance though it looks like only M2_2 slot will take up SATA ports 3, 5, and 6. As in if SATA port 3, 5, or 6 are populated you cannot use M2_2 or vise versa, if M2_2 is populated you cannot use SATA_3, SATA_5, or SATA_6.

Looks like slot M2_1 doesn't share anything, so that is where you should put it I think because otherwise you are loosing half your SATA ports

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

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