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Some more news!

Intel Z690 chipset for Alder Lake CPUs detailed, supports DDR4/DDR5 memory and Gear4 mode

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-z690-chipset-for-alder-lake-cpus-detailed-supports-ddr4-ddr5-memory-and-gear4-mode

"The 12th Gen Core CPU will either support DDR5 or DDR4 memory in the dual-channel configuration. This diagram actually reaffirms the slide from Intel Architecture Day which mentioned DDR5-4800 and DDR4-3200 support. The site claims that the DDR5 memory will support Gear 2 (by default) or Gear 4 settings, which means that the controller will be working at 1/2 or 1/4 of the data rate to ensure compatibility and memory overclocking support."

Essh. More and more, it sounds like DDR5 is gonna be a shit show with Alder Lake S at launch. Maybe Rocket Lake/Zen 4 is when it will truly start to make sense. The PCI-E config is also going to be interesting as some motherboards can choose to have full PCI-E Gen 5 x16 for GPU and x4 Gen 4 SSD or they can split it into x8 for GPU and x8 for SSD and x4 Gen 4 SSD.

Tales of Arise early PC benchmarks.

https://gamegpu.com/rpg/%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5/tales-of-arise-test-gpu-cpu

Now it's a Russian site so take it with a grain of salt but if the data is correct, it should perform pretty well with modern GPUs. It also shows crazy leads for Ryzen 5000 CPUs. The game doesn't actually have DLSS or FSR but doesn't seem to need it anyway.

1440p:

4k:

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Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 09 September 2021