PCIe Bottlenecks Slash NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Content Creation Performance by 25%

PCIe Lane Configurations can alter up to 25% perf in content creation with RTX 5090

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is built with PCIe 5.0 x16 support, offering up to 64 GB/s of bandwidth. This is a notable step up from the RTX 4090, which runs at PCIe 4.

PCIe Bottlenecks Slash NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Content Creation Performance by 25%

A lack of PCIe bandwidth can reduce RTX 5090 performance by as much as 25% in video editing and 3D workloads. Puget Systems conducted a series of tests on NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090, comparing different PCIe versions and lane configurations to assess the impact on content creation tools. At its launch, TechPowerUp's scaling tests noted that the GeForce RTX 5090 is the first high-end card to adopt PCIe 5.0 x16, delivering 64 GB/s of bidirectional …