Intel Raptor Lake will support DDR5-5600
At a recently related event, Intel further introduced the various features of the upcoming Raptor Lake. On the surface, Raptor Lake is an optimized version of Alder Lake, built on the same Intel 7 process, with similar P-Core and E-Core designs, existing 600-series chipsets can also provide support, but there are quite a few changes to Raptor Lake.
Judging from the slide leaked at the scene, Intel Raptor Lake will support DDR5-5600 while still supporting DDR4-3200, the 700 series chipset will provide more I/O channels, and it is rumored to support the new AI M.2 module, but Intel did not mention the PCIe 5.0 M.2 support. Although it was previously reported that the high-end Z790 motherboard will have a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot, Raptor Lake seems to only be able to split on the 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes used by the graphics card, rather than upgrading Alder Lake’s 4 PCIe 4.0 lanes to the PCIe 5.0 standard, as some have guessed.
In contrast, when AMD previously introduced its 600-series chipsets, it had clarified support for PCIe 5.0 M.2. At the same time, Phison announced at Computex 2022 that it will work with its partners AMD and Micron to build a PCIe 5.0 ecosystem to jointly promote the development of PCIe 5.0 SSDs.
