Intel has finally dropped DDR4 support with its Arrow Lake 800 series motherboards.

Previous leak predicts Intel's Arrow Lake desktop chips End of September Along with the new Z890 motherboards. Among other things, they will bring the new LGA1851 socket and a series of new features. A leaked document spotted by a user Chevelle (via HXL on X) He highlights some of these issues and confirms the end of DDR4 support. Raptor Lake's official DDR5 speed was 5,600 MT/s, and it will be interesting to see how far Arrow Lake can push that limit.

The new Arrow Lake motherboards with the 800-series chipset (Z890, B860, and H870, depending on the part number) integrate the Thunderbolt controller into the CPU, paving the way for high-end motherboards with a fully functional Thunderbolt 4.0 port. This will allow users to run up to four displays. Interestingly, Thunderbolt 5.0 It doesn't appear anywhere, although it was leaked previously.

Additionally, the Intel 800 series chipset has a total of 20 PCIe Gen 5 lanes, 16 of which are dedicated to the GPU, leaving four for an NVMe SSD. The second PCIe Gen 4 lane is connected directly to the CPU. Other specs include 2.5GbE support, USB 3 ports up to 20Gb/s, Wi-Fi 7 (via a PCIe adapter), and SATA 6Gb/s ports. Finally, the iGPU now supports DP2.1 and HDMI 2.1 standards.