As the brand-new Intel’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake CPUs prepare to make an entry at around Q1 of the next year, that is 2021, the details about the specifications and compatibility plus support are also being revealed day-by-day.Latest motherboards also work best for amd processors like ryzen 5 3600x.
The recent news of the high-end Z490 Motherboards having support for the upcoming Intel’s 11th generation Rocket Lake CPU is also good news that has pleased many PC users. The Z490, being one of the most high-end line-ups of motherboards, was a top choice for next-gen PC builders, it offered support for many of Intel’s latest high-end CPUs. The arrival of Intel’s new 11th generation Rocket Lake CPUs will surely urge many of the enthusiasts to upgrade and if by any chance they already have a Z490 motherboard set-up then it will be the most convenient choice amongst all their options.
It was reported by the well-known tech reviewer and news provider Tom’s Hardware, as spotted on Gigabyte’s Aorus Livestream, the manufacturers of the motherboard revealed that Z490 will offer complete support for Intel’s 11th-gen Rocket Lake processors.
Most of the enthusiasts that have taken the path of Intel against its competitors must already have a Z490 motherboard because it allows them to unlock the full potential of the previous CPUs from the series like the 10th-generation Comet lake ones. The Z490 motherboards offer just exactly what most of the intel enthusiasts might be looking for, including the new LGA 1200 socket, improved connectivity, networking, power delivery components, and now support for the future 11th Generation Rocket Lake CPU.
The Z490 is a great choice if you continue to go down that lane, as Intel is keeping itself stuck to the 14nm architecture for their CPUs, it will conveniently help you settle down on a Z490 for more than a couple of future upgrades. These motherboards have a very robust power delivery circuitry, so you don’t have to worry even if the next-gen CPU requires a slightly higher TDP than they are already running upon. Intel not moving ahead from the 14nm architecture is a blessing and a curse simultaneously, because it might help you upgrade more easily without having to move on to a different motherboard platform altogether, but it also lacks in power potential against competitors that have come down too much smaller architecture that offers unbeatable excellence.
There is one more thing that might also be a problem and that is support for PCI-e 4.0, which, if you have anything previous than the most recent Z490 motherboards, might not be featured. Of course, the recent Z490 motherboards have started to add support for PCI-e 4.0 as AMD’s competing X570 platform did quite a while ago. Yet, there is also the issue of Comet Lake CPUs not offering support for PCI-e 4.0, which leads to the thread hanging in-between even when the motherboard manufacturers have tried to meet them in the middle. It is, however, possible that Intel might include support for PCI-e 4.0, which is already being offered by competitors and has turned out to be quite the crowd-pleasing feature. The recent Z490 offers almost all the features that competitors have brought into the markets and will shoulder the 11th Generation Rocket Lake CPUs with great potential.
On the other hand, we know very little of Intel’s upcoming 11th Generation Rocket Lake CPUs, and till the date, which is speculated to be in the first quarter of the next year, we will slowly be showered with more revelation to the details. As of now, the news that the Z490 motherboards will offer compatibility for these next-gen CPUs comes as a pleasant surprise. Before that, we were also exposed to the slightly objectionable downgrade of max cores that will be offered in the 11th Gen CPUs, compared to the previously launched 10th generation that had chips featuring 10 cores, the 11th Gen Rocket Lake is said to be barred at only 8-cores. The architecture has said to be improved with a new architecture called the Cypress Cove but the scale remains stuck at 14nm, although it hopefully will gain efficiency over the previous launches otherwise, the competitors might drag the lead even further.
With the new CPUs, Intel is aiming for double-digit percentage IPC (Instructions Per Clock) performance improvements with also expected gain of 50% on the GPU performance against the previous generation, with the help of its brand new Xe graphics architecture. The Xe-graphics architecture is aimed to provide efficient performance for gaming crowds. It was also revealed by one of Intel’s author that the next-gen chips will offer support for PCIe 4.0, with up to 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes. That will allow for the support of much faster SSDs and other peripherals, but the confirmation has not yet landed, and we are impatiently waiting.
Other than the support for Intel’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake CPUs being announced by the manufacturers of the brand new Z490 motherboards, it was also revealed by a benchmark user called the ITCooker, who is alleged to have obtained benchmarks confirming PCIe 4.0 support with a Z490 motherboard. Most of the news can also be dismissed as speculation but there seems to promising details popping up here and there that makes us more curiously wait for the first quarter or maybe the second of the next year to see it all for ourselves.
Intel itself has not revealed much in regards to the details and it seems they are keeping it hush-hush for a while, in case the upcoming launch of AMD’s next-gen CPUs might unleash whopping potential and performance, forcing Intel’s hand to make changes to better compete against a competitor that offers unbeatable price and value. Since the Gigabyte has already spilled the beans on the Motherboard’s compatibility with Intel’s 11th generation CPUs, it might also speak for the PCI-e 4.0 gen support that is being added to the more latest variation of the Z490 because it wouldn’t be required if it wasn’t for the fact that Intel might also have its new chips equipped with support for PCI-e 4.0
