With the thirteenth Gen Core “Raptor Lake” work area processors, Intel on Tuesday sent off its buddy motherboard chipset, the Z790. Since “Raptor Lake” work area depends on a similar LGA1700 bundle as twelfth Gen “Alder Lake” work area; the two are intercompatible — you can utilize twelfth Gen processors with Z790 chipset motherboards out of the case; and you can utilize thirteenth Gen processors with Z690 or other 600-series chipset motherboards with the most recent Profiles. Z790 chipset basically sees a re-adjusting of the downstream PCIe network, bringing about more PCIe Gen 4 downstream lanes. Other than more downstream networks, you get one extra 20 Gbps USB 3.2×2 port.

While the Z690 put out up to 12 downstream PCIe Gen 4 lanes and up to 16 downstream PCIe Gen 3; the new Z790 puts out up to 20 downstream PCIe Gen 4 lanes, and up to 8 downstream PCIe Gen 3. Both chipsets use DMI 4.0 x8 as the chipset transport (association between the processor and chipset), with data transmission practically identical to PCI-Express 4.0 x8 (128 Gbps per course). Z790 permits motherboard planners to wire out up to five M.2 NVMe Gen 4 openings joined to the chipset, or convey a larger number of quantities of high-transfer speed installed gadgets than those conceivable with Z690; gadgets, for example, discrete USB4 have regulators, Thunderclap 4 80 Gbps regulators, and so on, other than a modest bunch PCIe Gen 4 spaces. The 8 PCIe Gen 3 lanes ought to be enough for lower-transmission capacity installed gadgets, for example, WLAN cards, locally available 2.5 GbE NICs, or even a 10 GbE NIC.