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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Marvell Announces First PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controllers: Up To 14 GB/s

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16703/marvell-announces-first-pcie-50-nvme-ssd-controllers



Dat feel when your entire PC gets outdated so fast. And if the rumours are true and Zen 4 really is pci-e 4.0 still, some of these SSDs will only be a benefit if you go with Intel.

You're talking about Alder Lake there? Because that's a no.

Alder Lake has only 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes, all for the GPU slot(s). SSDs only get 4.0 or even 3.0 (PCH has both 4.0 and 3.0) depending on how the connector is wired.

In other words, if you want to connect your SSD with PCIe 5.0, you'll have to wait until at least 2022.

Well you get 16x PCIe 5.0 lanes but that doesn't mean it would be limited to the GPUs as it's up to the motherboard manufacturer on how to use them. Kind of like how Rocket Lake works:

"The second big difference is that the Z590 platform will enable the processor to use PCIe 4.0. Intel will include native CPU PCIe 4.0 support for the first time, 20 lanes of it, which will enable a full x16 link for add-in cards as well as another PCIe 4.0 x4 for storage. Vendors will be able to split that x16 as required, similar to previous mainstream motherboards, into an x8/x8 or x8/x4/x4 bifurcated solution, with appropriate muxing."