Opinion: Intel Comet Lake is in a rough spot without PCIe 4.0<\/p>\n
After almost a year and a half of waiting, Intel Comet Lake-S<\/a> has finally arrived, bringing a 10-core processor to its mainstream lineup for the first time – one with pretty amazing clock speeds. <\/p>\n Just on the performance front, it does everything it needs to – the Intel Core i9-10900K<\/a> provides some pretty incredible single- and multi-threaded performance, even if it doesn’t quite topple over AMD’s current hold on the desktop CPU throne. <\/p>\n We’re not living in such a simple world anymore, however, where performance is all that matters. Even if we’re only <\/em>talking about PC gaming, the exclusion of PCIe 4.0 doesn’t bode well for future performance of systems with Comet Lake processors, especially where graphics cards<\/a> and storage are concerned. <\/p>\nPCIe 4.0 is the future, sorry<\/h2>\n