What is MSI's "Lightning Gen 4 M.2" feature?

[Vectorspace]

E.g. on https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-B550-GAMING-PLUS

 

Is it just a fancy name for a normal NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 that many other boards have, or is it something else?

[jaslion]

3 minutes ago, Vectorspace said:

E.g. on https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-B550-GAMING-PLUS

 

Is it just a fancy name for a normal NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 that many other boards have, or is it something else?

Basically marketing bs. It's just calling pcie 4.0 fast. Not that it matters as all current 4.0 drives are basically overclocked 3.0 ones and kinda sorta really suck. The new ones will have a proper controller and should be better but for general use and gaming there won't be any difference between a decent sata ssd and a blazing fast 4.0 drive.