It’s been an extended street, getting from there to right here. “There” being full, official assist for high-speed USB4 knowledge transfers on an AMD-powered laptop computer, and “right here” being the day that we are able to lastly use it. Gordon’s lastly bought his arms on simply such a laptop computer, the newest Razer Blade 14 with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU. And it has USB4 assist out of the field, no beta motherboard BIOS replace required.
Testing commences, together with a 10-gig Ethernet adapter (Thunderbolt 3), SanDisk G-Drive (Thunderbolt 3), OWC MiniStack hub with a 2TB M.2 drive mounted (Thunderbolt 4), a Razer Core X exterior GPU with an RTX 3080 (Thunderbolt 3 once more), and (drumroll!) a pre-production ZikeDrive USB4 exterior enclosure. CrystalDiskMark is displaying it virtually instantly hitting the utmost 3.8Gbps learn and write speeds, surpassing a number of the quickest Thunderbolt 3 enclosures.
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