Intel Arrow Lake processors bottleneck PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs by 16%, limiting peak speeds to 12Gb/s instead of 14Gb/s

Intel Arrow Lake processors bottleneck PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs by 16%, limiting peak speeds to 12GB/s instead of 14GB/s

Arrow Lake CPUs are allegedly bottlenecking PCIe 5.0 SSDs in Z890 motherboards, causing 5.0-capable drives to peak at 12GB/s rather than 14GB/s.

Intel Arrow Lake processors bottleneck PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs by 16%, limiting peak speeds to 12Gb/s instead of 14Gb/s

Arrow Lake CPUs are allegedly bottlenecking PCIe 5.0 SSDs in Z890 motherboards, causing 5.0-capable drives to peak at 12GB/s rather than 14GB/s.

PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Throughput Issues on Intel Core Ultra 200 Platforms

Intel’s Core Ultra 200 chips are built in a tile-based way that ends up slowing down the latest PCIe 5.0 SSDs. At first glance, you might think plugging a Samsung 9100 PRO or any other cutting-edge drive into the M.