GPU-Z PCIe reporting speed bug?

[Cyphadeaus]

When I open GPU-Z as you see below it reports the PCIe link speed as 3.0 when the PC is showing it running at 4.0 in the device properties. Is this a known bug?

An as the "tool tip" says to run a load; the reporting never changes btw.

 

[Naki]

Which motherboard is this on?
What CPU?

 

[evernessince]

When I open GPU-Z as you see below it reports the PCIe link speed as 3.0 when the PC is showing it running at 4.0 in the device properties. Is this a known bug?

An as the "tool tip" says to run a load; the reporting never changes btw.

View attachment 187394

That value doesn't represent PCIe link speed. For example, I have my 1080 Ti in a PCIe x16 and it shows 00000001.

The reading from GPU-Z is likely accurate. Of course you can always double check in your BIOS.

 

[Cyphadeaus]

Which motherboard is this on?
What CPU?

MSI X570 Pro Carbon Wifi
3700x

 

[W1zzard]

AMD has a PCIe bridge inside the GPU now, so it's no longer

GPU <-> CPU, but GPU <-> Bridge <-> CPU

Check in device manager, the bridge is running in Gen 3 mode, so your overall bandwidth is Gen 3 not Gen 4

Please c onfirm

 

[Cyphadeaus]

That value doesn't represent PCIe link speed. For example, I have my 1080 Ti in a PCIe x16 and it shows 00000001.

The reading from GPU-Z is likely accurate. Of course you can always double check in your BIOS.

Yea when I went into bios changed the PCIe link to Gen 2 windows properties didn't change but GPU-Z did change to Gen 2. But I manually set it from Auto to Gen4. Still shows Gen 3. :/

AMD has a PCIe bridge inside the GPU now, so it's no longer

GPU <-> CPU, but GPU <-> Bridge <-> CPU

Check in device manager, the bridge is running in Gen 3 mode, so your overall bandwidth is Gen 3 not Gen 4

Please c onfirm

W1zzard,

I'm not sure where you are referring too. Didn't see any bridge settings under the 6800 XT, or am I supposed to looking under the system devices? Need a little more info from you thanks.

PS: set all PCIe settings in the bios to GEN 4 since I'm running all gen 4 devices, (mobo, gpu, M.2's). Checked in GPU-z still says 3.0.

 

[W1zzard]

Device Manager, View devices by connection. This should help you figure out the path from the GPU to the CPU.

Are they all running in Gen 4 mode?

 

[Cyphadeaus]

Device Manager, View devices by connection. This should help you figure out the path from the GPU to the CPU.

Are they all running in Gen 4 mode?

The ones I did find said PCIe connection speed 000004. But I don't trust those after making manual changes and they didn't report correctly when dropping the link speed.