The Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE brings PCIe 5.0 to LGA 1700

The Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE uses an LGA 1700 socket and supports 12th Gen Intel Core (Alder Lake) and 13th Gen (Raptor Lake) processors. Z690 was the first mainstream Intel chipset with PCIe 5.0 support, and the AORUS ELITE brings that to both the primary x16 slot and M.2 storage — future-proofing without needing a new board for the next CPU generation.