Wednesday, December 16th 2020
Intel 500 Series Motherboards to Supposedly Arrive on January 11th
Intel needs a platform refresh to battle the competition, mainly speaking to battle AMD and its Ryzen 5000 series processors. That is why the company is developing 500 series of chipsets covering the low-end (H510), mid-range (B560), and high-end markets (Z590) that pair with the upcoming Rocket Lake-S processor generation. Dubbed 11th generation of Core processors, the 11th generation of Intel Core CPUs are going to be built on Intel's refined 14 nm process. The CPUs are supposed to feature a Cypress Cove core, which is a backport of Golden Cove found in Ice Lake. The 500 series motherboards are the last in the DDR4 generation, launching in the timeframe when DDR5 is supposed to take over in the coming years.
Today, thanks to Weixin, a Chinese media outlet that posted a short story on the WeChat platform, we have information about the launch date of these new chipsets. According to the source, we are allegedly going to see these new chipsets on January 11th, the day that Intel CES 2021 event is supposed to happen. The platform will include a range of motherboards from Intel's partners and is supposed to bring support for the much-needed PCIe 4.0 protocol. The launch date should be taken with a grain of salt, of course, before taking it as a fact.
Sources:
Weixin, via VideoCardz
Today, thanks to Weixin, a Chinese media outlet that posted a short story on the WeChat platform, we have information about the launch date of these new chipsets. According to the source, we are allegedly going to see these new chipsets on January 11th, the day that Intel CES 2021 event is supposed to happen. The platform will include a range of motherboards from Intel's partners and is supposed to bring support for the much-needed PCIe 4.0 protocol. The launch date should be taken with a grain of salt, of course, before taking it as a fact.
45 Comments on Intel 500 Series Motherboards to Supposedly Arrive on January 11th
Ahhh, its not a PR, well enjoy the new motherboards at least.
Somebody please wake me up when Intel actually announces something new, like, oh I don't know, maybe DDR5/PCIE5/64 lanes.. or something alone those lines anyways.. hehehehe :)
Cypress Cove is a backport of Sunny Cove found in Ice Lake.
Current z490 motherboards at best that are PCIE 4.0 compliant will only have it at for 1 X16 and 1 X4 NVME. I presume these will be fully PCIE 4.0 on all lanes.
Rumor I read a couple days ago (cant remember if it was Toms or PC gamer) that Alder Lake may come out sometime mid to end next year. I may have read it wrong but even if it is end of next year, then Rocket Lake isn't a worthy investment, especially for people such as myself with a current LGA 1200 chip.
Intel is I think doing whatever they can and throwing whatever they can in hopes to compete against AMD's newest chips. And doing so, they will release new motherboards as they normally do.
Also, I should mention that initially when Intel was pushing Comet Lake, Mobo Manufacturers werent given much info till later that if the CPU was PCIE 4.0 or not. Only one that was informed apparently at a specific time was ASUS since apparently none of their boards or maybe 1 board at best, has PCIE 4.0 hardware on it. Thus those with ASUS Z490 boards would have to upgrade if they want PCIE 4.0. MSI, Gigabyte and others were not informed so they had put the PCIE 4.0 compliant hardware on their mobo's.
I struck it lucky with the MSI Gaming Plus z490 as it was cheap and apparently after getting it and reading this, it should work with rocket lake and PCIE 4.0. But judging so far of performance of PCIE 4.0 vs 3.0 and its usefulness mix in with lower core count of Rocket Lake, I may just skip it and go with a 10900 ES I can find on Ali.
wccftech.com/z490-motherboards-pcie-gen-4-support-detailed-asus-msi-asrock-gigabyte/
Besides, upgrading has its own issues. See how long it will take for x470 boards to get updated to support ryzen 5000. And how x370 will never have official support, only causing more confusion. And even if you ahve a supported board, many will end up moving to x570 anyway because the x470 boards were not originally built with 16 core chips in mind, and many do not have the VRMs to support something like the 3950/5950x.
Not that intel can really justify changing constantly when they've basically added nothing. The 10 series should have used z390, given us a third generation since it didnt bring any new features like PCIe 4.0 to the table.
AM4 is not the only socket AMD has ever made. The likes of socket 754, 939, AM2, and AM2+ had comaprable lifespans to intel products. And should we forget how FM1 saw a SINGLE processor generation? Same with FM2. And AM1. ONE GENERATION. Intel only did that twice, once with socket 7 back in the 90s and once with the disasterous williamette launch.
AM4 is at the end of the line. AMD gave it 4 years of support, that ends this year. Nobody is expecting ryzen 6000 to be on socket AM4.
And AMD in cpu department was long, long time in the back seat of the car, but luckily it has changed by releasing zen 3.
If we are talking about chipset, I guess that there will be refresh of zen 3 on current mobos(chipsets), but there should not be anymore am4 new chipsets. As they said that this chipset will be supported including 2020. So i 2021. I'm hoping for new cpu and chipsets with ddr5. Fingers crossed.
Not sure I buy this......................