Intel executives: Rocket Lake-S architecture processor uses PCIe 4.0 SSD faster than Zen 3 architecture

AMD launched the first motherboard supporting PCIe 4.0 – X570 last year. Earlier sources said that AMD plans to make the old platform X470 also launch a new model that supports PCIe 4.0, but the plan was eventually canceled.

AMD’s strong competitor Intel also launched the first Z490 motherboard that supports PCIe 4.0 last year, but the 10th generation desktop core processors do not support PCIe 4.0. It was not until this year that Intel began to release the 11th generation desktop core processors supporting PCIe 4.0. But only Z590 series motherboards will support PCIe 4.0.

Recently, Intel’s Ryan Shrout claimed that the upcoming Rocket Lake-S architecture i9-11900K processor scored higher than the AMD Zen 3 architecture Ryzen 9 5950X. An 11% performance lead over Zen 3.

This test uses the Samsung 980 pro 1TB version. The SSD supports PCIe 4.0 technology. Both test machines use the SSD directly connected to the CPU. The configuration is the same except for the CPU and the motherboard. The final i9-11900K is the victory.

However, the score of the i9-11900K does not seem to be particularly large compared to the R9 5950X, but if there are games that require SSD high-speed reading and writing, then Intel’s advantage will have a good performance.

Via: overclock3d