AMD X570 Chipset Blockdiagram Surfaces - Specs - PCIe 4.0 All The Way
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There's more lanes for one thing isn't there, less having to pick and chose without splitting from 16x to 8x or lower which aids GPU's as well if you have a M.2 SSD taking a piece of this (Or two if the motherboard has multiple connectors.) and of course SLI or Crossfire even if the multi-GPU support could be in better shape.
Future proofing and additional hardware functionality including GPU should also benefit though maybe not for the X570 chipset and more, I have a lot of reading up to do on how much things have changed in ~8 years or so that's for certain.
I do mainly see a immediate gain for SSD technology but I doubt it's the only tech that would benefit and I believe PCI-E 5.0 is already being planned with further improvements though from there to enterprise type hardware to regular consumer hardware is a ways off still. 🙂
Nice to see bios updates also doing a thing for some of the X470 motherboards, just plop in a compatible CPU and get the benefits though perhaps not the full hardware deal but still good. Although I have lapsed significantly in hardware knowledge since when I was more involved and reading up on things and I got quite a few things wrong so yeah there's a lot of learning to do for planning the next system.
EDIT: Although for in-game performance or GPU performance I suppose the effect is less direct depending on what is currently bottlenecking things though other benefits shouldn't be dismissed either. Wonder how things like time or latency is going to be affected as well particularly for memory and advancements here and from RAM to CPU to GPU and all that but this is a area that is very unfamiliar to me so I wouldn't really know much at all on this subject.
(But I assume it would also factor in for HDD or rather SSD though gaming wise perhaps less so but for other areas it might be far more important.)
EDIT: And more, lanes would be routed to other things too from my vague memory of how this all worked. It's a complicated piece of circuitry alright.
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