Review: Intel Core i9-11980HK (Tiger Lake-H)

Benchmarks: Storage

AMD may have beaten Intel to PCIe 4.0 on consumer desktops, but the tables are turned in the laptop arena. Tiger Lake-H is the first to offer the high-speed interconnect, enabling super-fast storage from a growing number of compatible drives.

Each Phison PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD in the Intel Reference laptop is capable of hitting sequential reads of almost 5,000MB/s, the fastest we've seen from a single-drive configuration.