Quote from: jayn2 on October 23, 2024, 14:54:46Arrow Lake has 16 wide pcie5 available for discrete GPU. I'd reserve any judgement on its gaming performance until it is paired with a GPU that also makes pcie5 available.  Also, ai processing performance could become more important than gaming fps, and it will surely benefit from the pcie5.

So You want to wait a decade to utilize it? In 2024 bandwidth of PCi-e 3.0 8x is sufficient for most games with RatX 4090, we're still to fully utilize bandwidth of PCi-e 3.0 16x, PCi-e 4.0 4x, 8x and 16x and than PCi-e 5.0 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x. So what gives? This CPU is obsolete for games before it's release and those are facts.

I just don't see dramatic leaps in performance anymore. Kind of splitting hairs these days on where performance increases happen. So it gives the media something to talk about is all that matters I guess. I still think Intel took the wrong path forward and it has so far not paid off. Gaming aside, there is little to celebrate in the lower tiers of CPU's. Snapdragon X has commanded a solid lead in efficiency, and all it needs to do is build on performance. AMD has showed a slow and steady improvement gets the win with proven Ryzen architecture that keeps it in the mix. Intel needs to take a major step back and re-evaluate what it is doing.

Arrow Lake has 16 wide pcie5 available for discrete GPU. I'd reserve any judgement on its gaming performance until it is paired with a GPU that also makes pcie5 available.  Also, ai processing performance could become more important than gaming fps, and it will surely benefit from the pcie5.