If I buy you guys a x570 chipset motherboard for your AMD CPU's will you use it for testing? This was a great opportunity to show on a memory constrained card the difference in performance with PCIe 4.x.
We have been backed up on video card reviews at the moment, but that very test is planned.
This test we did today is very relevant because not everyone has an X570 chipset. The X470 and below, or Intel, are still very popular, therefore PCIe 3.0 is still very relevant for many gamers right now, today. There are probably more people not on X570 at the moment, then there are people that are on X570 in this world.
That said, your idea is not far fetched, and we have been planning to do a system test such as that and upgrade our test bench. I am but one person, and we have many things we had to get to first before I can do the switch. I would continue to argue that X470 and below, and Intel, are more relevant to readers and gamers than X570, that is just one chipset, and not everyone is running it yet, so it's important to see what the mainstream of gamers actually get in performance.
Then when we do the comparison with PCIe 4.0 versus 3.0 we'll have more data to reference, we can look back at this testing and see how that compares. This testing today gives us a good baseline to compare with. The testing we did today will be relevant for a lot of people not on X570 yet, and that's a LOT of people.
BTW, I have both a PCIe 4.0 versus PCIe 3.0 test planned and a gaming performance test between CPUs and platforms, please be patient with us as we get to it all. But if you want to see those things, definitely continue to check us out every week for new reviews.
