PCIe gen 4 drive in a gen 3 slot?

ThinkStation P3 Tower - OVERVIEW gen 4 ssd in gen 3 slot I'm trying my first build and I bought a samsung 980 PCIe NVMe SSD which is a PCIe Gen x4, NVMe interface genie 168 slot This high performance PCIe Gen4 SSD delivers 2X faster data transfer rate of PCIe Gen3 SSDs, which lets you experience the full potential of NVMe drive

genie''s 3 wishes slot png In comparison, PCIe Gen4 operates at 16 GTs, converting to about 2 GBs per PCIe lane PCIe Gen4 is the fourth generation of the PCI Express specification As