Intel Arrow Lake processors bottleneck PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs by 16%, limiting peak speeds to 12Gb/s instead of 14Gb/s

Arrow Lake CPUs are allegedly bottlenecking PCIe 5.0 SSDs in Z890 motherboards, causing 5.0-capable drives to peak at 12GB/s rather than 14GB/s.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-arrow-lake-processors-bottleneck-pcie-5-0-nvme-ssds-by-16-percent-limiting-peak-speeds-to-12gb-s-instead-of-14gb-s

Created 2mo | May 8, 2025, 1:10:11 PM


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