NVIDIA RTX 3080 PCIe vs PCIe x16 Benchmarks

PCIe vs PCIe RTX 4090 Gaming Benchmarks 14 pcie 4 gpu in pcie 3 slot 4 lanes 4 of them are used to connect to the chipset So 20 lanes are available for direct connection 16x goes to PCIe Slot1 pcie slot size PCIe Option: PCIe PCIe No PCIe Sold out Vertical GPU: up to 4 slots; horizontal GPU: 3 slots drive mounts

pcie x1 in x16 slot The PCI-E bus is used to communicate with the graphics card So does this mean that connecting a GPU in a PCI-E x1 slot would not affect