3dmark now available and new performance test for pcie 4.0

With PCI-Express 4.0 graphics cards and motherboards on the way, UL has released its PCIe 4.0 performance test for 3DMark. This latest addition has been designed to verify the bandwidth available to the GPU through the PCI Express interface of the computer.

3DMark Now Available and New Performance Test for PCIe 4.0

The PCIe 4.0 interface is hitting the market this year and the first to adopt it will be AMD with its new X570 motherboards and Ryzen 3000 processors. Different SSD drives have also been announced to take advantage of this additional bandwidth.

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At 3DMark, there will be a specific test to measure bandwidth with PCI Express 4.0. To achieve this, the test will make bandwidth the performance limiting factor by doing so by loading a large amount of vertex and texture data into the GPU for each frame. The ultimate goal is to transfer enough data through the PCIe 4.0 interface to fully saturate it. Upon completion of the test, the end result will be a look at the average bandwidth achieved during the test.

Although actual gaming performance is unlikely to be constrained by PCIe bandwidth, the test provides a repeatable and reliable way to measure PCIe bandwidth across generations and thus performance. of different hardware configurations. The PCI Express Feature Test is now available in 3DMark Advanced Edition and 3DMark Professional Edition and is compatible with any system that has a separate Direct X 12 compatible graphics card.

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