Hello

AMD graphic cards with support for PCI Express 3.0 appeared on the market for quite some time, yet there is no AMD chipset supporting PCI Express 3.0 for AM3+. As I cannot find any information on the subject, I am wondering if anyone knows if:

1. There is any new chipset on the horizon for AM3+ with support for PCI Express 3.0.

2. If there is any performance penalty for a card like say Radeon 7850 on a PCI Express 2.0 slot regarding graphics and also computational instructions (OpenCL). What about a CrossfireX configuration with 2 cards on PCI Express 2.0?

These questions come related to the newly released AMD FX 8350 processor and Windows 8 OS, so I know it might take a while until community and proper reviews might give a conclusive point of view.

Chris

1.  Most likely, although it may not occur until the next socket/chipset release.

2.  You most likely won't notice much of a performance difference unless you are looking at a benchmark scores.  From what I've read so far is that PCI Express 2.0 x16 is roughly equal to PCI Express 3.0 x8 speeds and as I stated earlier, is not very noticeable.  If you are going to run CrossFire, make sure that your motherboard has at least two PCI Express 2.0 x16 lanes.

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Thanks for your answer Canis-X

I cannot fully understand why AMD hasn't released a new chipset with PCI Express 3.0 support though, even if now there is no performance improvement. Maybe some folks (like me maybe) want to build a new system and not change the graphics card just yet, but in 1-2 years when maybe PCI Ecpress 2.0 will show it's limitations.