3 reasons you shouldn't care what PCIe generation your GPU is using

If you're in the market for one of the latest graphics cards — Nvidia's RTX 50 or AMD's RX 90 — you might be worried about your motherboard supporting the PCIe generation of your GPU. Both the Blackwell and RDNA 4 series support PCIe 5.0 speeds, which means they're capable of accessing the 32 GT/s link speed of the PCIe 5.0 interface. However, if your motherboard doesn't have a PCIe 5.0 slot for the GPU, it's not the end of the world.