Friday, October 16th 2020
MSI's Entire Lineup of AMD 400-series Chipset Motherbord will Support "Zen 3"
AMD has officially announced Zen 3 architecture Ryzen 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen 3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7 nm Ryzen 3000 series processors. For the upcoming processors, MSI has released the latest AGESA COMBO PI V2 1.1.0.0 for all X570 and B550 series motherboards (Link) to perfectly utilize the PCI-E 4.0 performance.
In response to the upgrade demands, AMD also mentioned the BIOS update for selected 400 series motherboards to support Ryzen 5000 series processors will be ready in January 2021. To respond to our users' anticipation, MSI is announcing that all 400 series motherboards, including X470 and B450, MAX, or non-MAX products, will provide BIOS updates later on that can support Ryzen 5000 processors. All the evaluation is in progress under the R&D team. A detailed BIOS release schedule will be announced after the BIOS code is provided by AMD. Please stay tuned for the latest information on the MSI website.
Regarding the 300 series motherboards, including X370, B350, and A320 chips, AMD's current official information points out that they are not supported. If AMD makes any official updates later, MSI will also provide the latest information on time.
In response to the upgrade demands, AMD also mentioned the BIOS update for selected 400 series motherboards to support Ryzen 5000 series processors will be ready in January 2021. To respond to our users' anticipation, MSI is announcing that all 400 series motherboards, including X470 and B450, MAX, or non-MAX products, will provide BIOS updates later on that can support Ryzen 5000 processors. All the evaluation is in progress under the R&D team. A detailed BIOS release schedule will be announced after the BIOS code is provided by AMD. Please stay tuned for the latest information on the MSI website.
30 Comments on MSI's Entire Lineup of AMD 400-series Chipset Motherbord will Support "Zen 3"
That aside, yes. All the 500 series boards are meant to support Zen 3, either they ship with the support baked in or you download a BIOS update and that'd be it.
But for example, ASUS has not yet launched a BIOS update for my Prime X570-P to support Ryzen 5000 CPUs. I suspect it will be soon, though.
For full support, upon ZEN3 release (Nov5th) they will provide the A.G.E.S.A Combo V2 PI 1.1.0.0
Although I will have to take a look at the features. Maybe going x570 does have its merits and the jump to a newer board will actually be better.
For that I'm gonna have to wait a bit to see the reviews. Either way, that is a good news :)