AMD Ryzen 4000H series capped to PCIe 3.0 x8, limiting high-end GPU options

AMD Renoir FP6 (Mobile) is capped to PCIe 3.0 x8 Igor Wallosek has shared a new block diagram for the Ryzen 4000H and U series platform codenamed Renoir FP6. The diagram reveals the sad truth about PCI-Express interface bandwidth limitation. This could be the main reason why notebooks makers have avoided pairing high-performance Ryzen 4000 CPUs with more powerful graphics. The Renoir FP6 is locked to PCIe 3.0 with either x8 or x4 link. This is not a huge difference performance-wise, but it definitely is a considerable factor when it comes to mobile graphics, where each SKUs only offers a...

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