- 20 PCI Express 4.0 lanes: this will be one of the most important changes. This is an outstanding design compared to Ryzen because with 20 lanes of PCIe 4.0, Rocket Lake-S CPUs can be connected directly to 1 GPU (x16) and 1 NVME drive (x4) without having to go through the chipset, Help to delay data processing almost by 0.
- DMI 3.0 x8: Direct Media Interface is a communication protocol between CPU and Chipset (intermediates connected to storage devices, peripherals, .) will be upgraded to x8, double that of x4 on other devices. Intel motherboard line on the market today. Theoretically, the speed will be 16 GT / s, double that of 8 GT / s (equivalent to 3.93 GB / s).
- New Intel Xe Graphics core: The new graphics core will support HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a. - For most desktop users, it will not be too important, except for cases where it is needed for fire fighting. However, this 14nm graphics core will still be more powerful than AMD's most powerful integrated graphics core at the moment, which is manufactured on the 7nm process.
- Thunderbolt 4 and USB 3.2 20G: add peripheral connectivity protocols but probably the majority of devices on the market and users are not sure to take advantage of the bandwidth of these new protocols.
- Remove Intel Software Guard Extensions.
A bit of comparison between recent generations of Intel CPUs: