The latest leaks focus on the platform controller hub, which handles most of a motherboard's connectivity. For Z990, that hub is said to be significantly smaller than...
  • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    There’s only 24 lanes on Intel

    16 for GPU

    4 for m.2

    4 for chipset (USB 3/4, wired/wireless networking, Sata III, and additional m.2 all share the same bandwidth from these 4 lanes)

    AMD has 28, but it’s 8 lanes to the chipset iirc.