The ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-A takes Alder Lake and Raptor Lake on LGA 1700

The ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-A runs on LGA 1700 and accommodates both 12th Gen Intel Core (Alder Lake) and 13th Gen (Raptor Lake) processors. This was the bridge generation — the one that brought DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 to Intel’s mainstream desktop while keeping socket compatibility across two architectures.