Is there any benefit to putting a PCIe 4 SSD in a PCIe 3 slot?

That's because few games ever saturate the 32GBps of data today's x16 PCIe slot can carry 2 1TB PCIe SSD Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen4 M

2 supports both SATA and PCIe, an module may only be inserted in either one of the two interfaces, so check your motherboard documentation

m2 slot screw 3 - Real World und Workstation, 4

m2 slot types 2 drives that only reach 3 GBs at most anyways And in theory, two PCIe lanes can reach GBs throughput, so going down to 2 lanes per