Following ASRock, ASUS, MSI Gigabyte now as well has the issue their motherboard lineup leaked out. In specific I am talking about the Z490 motherboard lineup of course, based on Socket LGA1200 for Comet-lake, and later oN Rocket-Lake.
Much like the other brands, the boards seem to be PCIe Gen 4.0 'ready', as Comet lake will not be Gen 4, we expect the Rocket lake generation to take advantage of PCIe Gen 4. So it's all electrically prepared.
Gigabyte PCIe 4.0 Hardware Design
- 2x PCIE 4.0 Slot (Reinforced PCIe 4.0 x16 or x8/x8 with lower impedance)
- M.2 PCIe 4.0 Slot (M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 slot with lower impedance)
- PCIE 4.0 Turbo B-Clock (External clock generator for PCIe 4.0 overclocking)
- PCIE 4.0 Switches (Switch PCIe 4.0 x16 into PCIe x8/x8)
- PCIe 4.0 Re-driver (Boost & strengthen PCIe 4.0 signals to longer lengths)
- 3.3x Slot Signal Stability
- 4x Lower Low Signal Loss PCB
The content got posted and leaked over at Videocardz. Gigabyte will have quite a lineup, and the Master version does look very nice:
| GIGABYTE Z490 Motherboards | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motherboard | Daisy Chain + Shielded Memory Routing | Memory Single DIMM 32GB Support | Extreme Power Design with 90A Power Stage | Direct Power Design | Tantalum Capacitor Array | Nanocarbon Fins-Array | Thermal Guard 2 | Intel 2.5G | |
| Z490 AORUS EXTREME WF | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Z490 AORUS EXTREME | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Z490 AORUS MASTER | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Z490 AORUS Ultra (G2) | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Z490 AORUS PRO AX | X | X | X | ||||||
| Z490 AORUS ELITE AC | X | X | X | ||||||
| Z490 AORUS ELITE | X | X | X | ||||||
| Z490I AORUS ULTRA | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Z490 VISION D | X | X | X | ||||||
| Z490 VISION G | X | X | X | ||||||
| Z490 GAMING X | X | X | |||||||
| Z490 UD AC | X | X | |||||||
| Z490 UD | X | X | |||||||
| Z490 M GAMING X | X | X | |||||||
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Gigabyte AORUS Z490 Motherboard Lineup Leaked, Ready for PCIe Gen 4
