Blender - CPU or GPU - which to invest in?

some GPU references

First is PCIE 1.0 vs 2.0 vs 3.0 on same motherboard. all 16x setups.

you can consider PCIe 2.0 16x = PCIe 3.0 8x when talking about bandwidth

Here is something more recent

GTX 1080 PCIe express scaling tests