Friday, June 14th 2019

ASMedia-sourced AMD B550, A520 Chipset Motherboards Arrive in 2020
If a recent MSRP price-list leak is anything to go by, motherboards based on the AMD X570 chipset will cost a pretty penny, beating even Intel's premium Z390 Express chipset on average motherboard pricing. Those looking for an affordable motherboard for the Ryzen 3000 series processors have the option of choosing existing AMD 400-series chipset based motherboards, and taking advantage of the USB BIOS Flashback feature that's almost universally available on the AMD platform. You lose out on PCI-Express gen 4.0 with the older platforms, which may not be a big compromise when it comes to graphics cards, but would limit your M.2 NVMe SSD performance upgrade path. One possible option would be to wait for affordable variants of AMD's 500-series chipsets, which are sourced from ASMedia.
According to DigiTimes, ASMedia will tape out its next-generation AMD-platform chipset silicon, and is on track to shipping its new chipsets to motherboard manufacturers by Q4-2019. This would pin availability of the first motherboards based on these chipsets to at least Q1 2020. These chipsets not only feature PCI-Express gen 4.0 downstream lanes, but also boards based on these will be built to AMD's PCB requirements for the new platform, enabling a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slot for discrete graphics, and revised CPU VRM and memory wiring specifications that improve overclocking over the previous generation platform. For now there are two SKUs in the works, the B550, which succeeds the B450, and the A520, succeeding the A320.Image Credit: Hardware.info
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DigiTimes
According to DigiTimes, ASMedia will tape out its next-generation AMD-platform chipset silicon, and is on track to shipping its new chipsets to motherboard manufacturers by Q4-2019. This would pin availability of the first motherboards based on these chipsets to at least Q1 2020. These chipsets not only feature PCI-Express gen 4.0 downstream lanes, but also boards based on these will be built to AMD's PCB requirements for the new platform, enabling a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slot for discrete graphics, and revised CPU VRM and memory wiring specifications that improve overclocking over the previous generation platform. For now there are two SKUs in the works, the B550, which succeeds the B450, and the A520, succeeding the A320.Image Credit: Hardware.info
83 Comments on ASMedia-sourced AMD B550, A520 Chipset Motherboards Arrive in 2020
The motherboard design might be improved slightly to allow for better memory performance past a certain point, but that's the only thing I can think of, beyond PCIe 4.0 support.
As for older boards, that's down to the board makers. Technically my X370 board will support the new CPUs, but that doesn't seem to apply to all boards. Part of the reason not all boards will support the 3000-series is due to the SPI flash chips used not being big enough, which limits how much data can be stored. For some reason, it seems AMD's CPU profiles are quite big and as such, support for non Ryzen based APUs have been dropped on boards that added Ryzen 3000-series support.
at last for me, cheapest X470 : 169$ cheapest mentioned X570 160'ish $ (159.99$ to be exa.... whatever... ), highest X470 308$, highest mentioned X570 (horror HEDT pricing! ) 299$
well i am sure my retailer/etailer will adjust the X570 pricing nonetheless
but a X570 + a R9 3950X will still be cheaper than a 9980XE alone ... :laugh:
The 2080 Ti is nowhere near saturating PCIe 3.0, we are at least 6 years out from needing PCIe 4.0. Right now it is strictly for professionals.
X370, B450, and X470 motherboards will all support Ryzen 3000 series CPUs.
Furthermore: this is in regard for up to 8c / 16t Zen 2 CPUs only, because i seriously doubt higher core count Zen 2 CPUs will be supported on most B450 boards, as well as some X370 / X470 boards.
We shall see ...
Although PCIe 4.0 is neat to have, I hope new TR/EYPC to launch with 5.0 support. Maybe intel can force this move?
although ... i think it's right to raise the price when you do good (even tho my wallet does not like it ... ) and Intel did raise price while doing "ok, thanks to AMD sleeping" (sleeping? .... well they did sleep less than Intel or as Intel thought they did ...) true ... and while the not 100% assured compatibility i might take a *Oh god, horror HEDT pricing* x470 of the top line at 308chf ... and a R7 3700 (and still have enough to buy food and drink even tho it's overrated )
There is also word of a X590 chipset with all 24 lanes enabled for the 3950X launch in fall...
I doubt we'll see 5.0 in any consumer products until 2022/2023. As for TR/EPYC, no, it's not going to happen until 2021 at the earliest, as AMD has no reason to accelerate their implementation just to beat Intel to a pointless goalpost. Did you miss the news about AMD disabling this feature, due to not all board qualifying to meet the PCIe 4.0 standard?
As such, there's no official support from AMD's side for this, but we might still see the feature hanging around.
Some interesting details with regards to the X570 thermals here www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3482-amd-x570-vs-x470-x370-chipset-comparison
From AMD's side, it makes sense to keep X470/B350 around for as long as they can, both because they don't actually have a replacement for them, secondly to recoup the cost of having those chipsets developed, and thirdly to ensure all the inventory is digested.
Consumers will also win because X570 will push the prices of X470 and B350 boards down, which means we'll be able to get more features for less money. As someone who's going to be building a Ryzen 2 system in a couple of months, this makes me pretty happy.
And for anyone wondering why AMD made an X570 chipset at all: they had to because ASmedia isn't ready, but they actually cheated because the "chipset" is simply a slightly modified version of the IO die present on Ryzen 2.
This will be my future setup, replacing my X58 setup. Just waiting for reviews and off cause that i get saved up some more money for it.
$500 sound like a good news.
EDIT: I didn't pay attention that it's not the X599. It's rather a premium of the already premium X570. Eek!
Asus call the people who buys their rog motherboards "AAA Gamers"
I wonder what Asus will call the people who will buy their premium premium x590. "AAA Gamers" will become "$$$ Gamers" hehe
Fixed!!!!!
That's why I will vote with my wallet, i.e. they can sooki mi kooki. Shame, I can really use a beefy Threadripper now.
My board which is a B350 chipset has had Ryzen 3000 support added
this is his original post
buuuuutttt ... we can bet a AMD 1k$ mobo plus the top of the line CPU (HEDT or not) will still be cheaper than a 9980XE ......... again ... pfeeeeewww the price of the 9980XE is almost a meme, oh well... nonetheless ... the fixes made my day (Sun ... day ... ) kinda confused? ... X599 : intel, X570: upcoming AMD chipset (and well ... since, as i mentioned, there is no "ultra high end" X470 in the actual lineup ... a 500+ premium X570 is not too disturbing ... )
X570 has a standard pricing ... compared to X470 and in direct continuation of the X470 pricing (well ... compared to my country ) thus not "already premium" since as i mentioned once... a low end X570 is priced around a first price X470 and et cetera .... i fail to see where is "OOOOHHHH THE HORROR PRICING!!!" aside the "ultra high end" mobo that didn't exist in the X470 lineup but that have a logical raise in price compared to the rest of the lineup ...
making mountains out of molehills ... i guess ...
and well ... for the last part ... all the X470 lineup prices never budged from their launch price for me ... (ok maybe +/-10$ )