Monday, December 5th 2016
AMD's ZEN-Supporting X370 Motherboards to be Shown at "New Horizon" Event
AMD's December 13th "New Horizon" event is supposedly (and expectedly) a pivotal moment for the company - a celebration of sorts for the impending launch of their ZEN-based microprocessors. The event, which will be presented mainly by Gametrailers TV-based journalist Geoff Keighley, is now turning up to be a Summit Ridge celebration of sorts as well.
According to recent reports, a small number of motherboard manufacturers should also be in attendance at the event, showing-off their AM4-compatible motherboards based on the top-of-the-line X370 chipset. The X370 is the most advanced version of the Zen-compatible chipsets and is expected to provide extensive overclocking features and up to two third-generation PCIe x16 lanes for multi-GPU systems. Below the X370, the B350 and A320 take over the role of the mid-range and entry-level chipsets respectively. The new chipsets are expected to bring native M.2 NVMe & SATA Express connectivity, PCIe gen 3, DDR4 memory compatibility and USB 3.1 Gen2 to the company's high-end desktop platform for the very first time.
The live event under the motto "New Horizon" takes place almost three weeks before CES 2017, at which AMD is expected to unveil its Summit Ridge family to the general public. As we have previously reported, and according to yet-unconfirmed information, the CPUs are to be marketed as SR7, SR5 and SR3, in approximation to rival Intel's marketing-giants Core i7, i5 and i3 series.
Source:
WCCFTech
According to recent reports, a small number of motherboard manufacturers should also be in attendance at the event, showing-off their AM4-compatible motherboards based on the top-of-the-line X370 chipset. The X370 is the most advanced version of the Zen-compatible chipsets and is expected to provide extensive overclocking features and up to two third-generation PCIe x16 lanes for multi-GPU systems. Below the X370, the B350 and A320 take over the role of the mid-range and entry-level chipsets respectively. The new chipsets are expected to bring native M.2 NVMe & SATA Express connectivity, PCIe gen 3, DDR4 memory compatibility and USB 3.1 Gen2 to the company's high-end desktop platform for the very first time.
62 Comments on AMD's ZEN-Supporting X370 Motherboards to be Shown at "New Horizon" Event
AMD is in right step about Zen. The concept of all in for multithread and sacrificing singlethread is a joke.
About your rig I don't care. I went from 2600k @ 5ghz to 6500 @ 4.8ghz (currently try 5ghz again with new motherboard) I must say that even Sandy Bridge ipc is too slow for gaming nowaday. I see major improvement (30-40% combine with ddr4-3600+) in very cpu intensive game like totalwar attila and cities skylines 81 tiles mod and gta v with extended distance scaling at max.
Since you only seem to be focusing on games (which is only a 10% market by the way) and you like to refer to youtube videos I have one here for you that is a modern title, but a game that has been coded correctly to use multi threaded CPU's well. Tell me what you think about the so called "slow" 8350 now?
Not bad for an old out of date tech!
Also this video is showing OpenGL not Vulkan, I know for a fact once Vulkan is enabled my FPS in doom on my 8350 went up 30fps in which im getting better FPS then this guy in this youtube video on a GTX 970
FYI I have cities Skyline and its way more dependent on GPU then it is CPU and I have mods on as well, but nice try :)
IMO current AMD motherboards are ugly ugly xDDD