The Intel ® 600 Series Chipset
- Supports 12th Gen Intel ® Core (Alder Lake-S) processors
- Integrated Intel ® Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+)(via CNVi)
- 2×2 Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) & R2 160MHz Bluetooth 5.2; 2230 & 1216 (Garfield Peak 2)
- Integrated USB3 (20G) Ports3
- Support for Intel ® Optane ™ Memory H20 with Solid State Storage
- Support for Intel ® Smart Sound Technology with Programmable (Open FW SDK) Quad-Core Audio DSP3
- Intel ® Platform Trust Technology
- Intel ® Boot Guard
- Integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC
- Supports Intel ® Ethernet Connection 1219 (Jacksonville LAN PHY)
- Some features and capabilities require SSDs and/or multiple HDDs
- Maximum lanes / port counts available may vary depending on platform implementation
- Certain features may not be present in all system configurations
- Intel ® SIPP, Intel vPro ®, & Intel AMT support requires select Alder Lake-S processors and select Intel ® 600 series chipsets
- Requires 2 physical HSIO USB lanes
| Key Feature Differentiation | Q670 | Z690 | H670 | B660 | H610 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel ® ME Firmware SKU | ME 16 Commercial | ME 16 Consumer | ME 16 Consumer | ME 16 Consumer | ME 16 Consumer |
| Processor PCI Express 5.0 Configuration Support | 1×16 or 2×8 | 1×16 or 2×8 | 1×16 or 2×8 | 1×16 | 1×16 |
| Processor PCI Express 4.0 Configuration Support | 1×4 | 1×4 | 1×4 | 1×4 | N/A |
| Independent Display Ports / Pipes Support | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 3/4 |
| Memory Channels / DIMMs per Channel | 2/2 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 2/1 |
| Overclocking | No | IA. BLCK, Memory | Memory | Memory | No |
| Integrated Intel ® Wireless-AX Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Intel ® Smart Sound Technology (USB and Bluetooth offload) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Intel ® SIPP Eligible4 | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Intel ® vPro Technology Eligible4 | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Intel ® Active Management Technology4 | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Intel ® Standard Manageability | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Intel ® Optane Memory H2) with Solid State Storage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| eSPI Chip Select (number of devices supported) | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| DMI 4.0 Lanes | 8 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Maximum High Speed I/O Lanes (HSIO) | 34 | 38 | 32 | 24 | 12 |
| Maximum USB 2 Ports2 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 10 |
| Maximum USB3 (20G) Ports2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Maximum USB3 (10G) Ports2 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Maximum USB3 (5G) Ports2 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 |
| Maximum SATA 3.0 Ports (6 Gb/s)2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| Maximum PCI Express 4.0 lanes2 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 0 |
| Maximum PCI Express 3.0 lanes2 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 8 |
| Intel ® Rapid Storage Technology w/ Intel @reg; VMD Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Intel ® RST PCIe RAID 0, 1, 51, 101 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Intel ® RST SATA RAID 0, 1, 5, 101 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |