It has just been leaked through the official GIGABYTE marketing materials that the company confirms support on all of its Z490 motherboards for support for PCIe 4.0. There would be no new or news if it were not for there are two basic problems in this statement of the brand:
- Intel has not issued an official support order for PCIe 4.0, at least so far, under Comet Lake-S.
- PCIe 4.0 functionality on GIGABYTE boards will be limited.
Looking at the situation this way, GIGABYTE and Intel are more than likely to have a good behind-the-scenes conversation.
GIGABYTE limits the design of its motherboards with PCIe 4.0 due to the Z490 chipset
It is the great question that remains to be resolved. It is clear that GIGABYTE is ahead of the rest with the future in mind with Rocket Lake-S and will want to wrest sales from its rivals on the pretext that it will not have to change its motherboard again to natively and securely support PCIe 4.0.
As we see, the war is open and although it is a leak and not an official confirmation of GIGABYTE, it is sure to spark sparks between manufacturers, because who of them is going to want to be left behind?
Without a doubt everything is very exciting, more than the architecture itself will suppose, there is less …
