Monday, July 11th 2022
AMD's B650E Chipset Confirmed in Leaked List of ASRock AM5 Motherboards
Although AMD has not as yet announced its B650E chipset, rumour about such a chipset started before Computex. To date, no specific motherboard models have been mentioned by model name, but courtesy of Videocardz, we now have a list of several upcoming models from ASRock. The company has already announced its X670E range of motherboards, which consists of five models, of which four can already be seen on the ASRock website. ASRock appears to be planning five B650E boards, plus another six B650 SKU's. The company also appears to be the OEM for NZXT's second AMD motherboard, which appears to be called the N7-B65XT, which might also be a B650E based board.
Unfortunately we don't know any of the technical details about the upcoming B650/B650E boards from ASRock, but the model names give away that two of the five B650E boards will be Mini-ITX boards. It doesn't look like ASRock will be offering a high-end B650E model, but at least there will be an upper mid-range Steel Legend board. ASRock will also have a couple of mATX B650 boards, one should be a more gaming focused mid-range model, with the other being what appears to be a fairly basic model. One peculiar addition is a B650 SKU with the prefix LiveMixer, which is a new series from ASRock as far as we're aware. ASRock doesn't appear to be offering any X670 motherboards at all, at least not based on the current information.
Source:
Videocardz
Unfortunately we don't know any of the technical details about the upcoming B650/B650E boards from ASRock, but the model names give away that two of the five B650E boards will be Mini-ITX boards. It doesn't look like ASRock will be offering a high-end B650E model, but at least there will be an upper mid-range Steel Legend board. ASRock will also have a couple of mATX B650 boards, one should be a more gaming focused mid-range model, with the other being what appears to be a fairly basic model. One peculiar addition is a B650 SKU with the prefix LiveMixer, which is a new series from ASRock as far as we're aware. ASRock doesn't appear to be offering any X670 motherboards at all, at least not based on the current information.
21 Comments on AMD's B650E Chipset Confirmed in Leaked List of ASRock AM5 Motherboards
Is this preferable somehow?
If Ada/RDNA3 is PCI-express 4.0 based it will provide half the bandwidth, so a disadvantage and also it will offer no advantage in relation with PCI-express 4.0 16X for next-next gen (PCI-express 5.0) VGAs.
Unless we are talking for future entry level VGAs that are PCI-express 5.0 4X based that usually go with entry or mid tier motherboards...
Long live RX 7400? (First PCI-express 5.0 model possibly?)jk
...and that's assuming that DirectStorage ever actually happens. Microsoft and Nvidia were both touting it as the must-have feature for the upcoming Windows 11, upcoming Ampere GPUs, and upcoming PCIe 4.0 SSDs. We've had 2+ years of PCIe 4.0 SSDs, almost 2 years of Ampere GPUs, and the final non-beta version of W11 rolled out to Windows Insiders a little over a year ago.
B650E/B650 one chipset, E with gpu and ssd PCIe 5. Probably.
Please see link below for a PCIe lane explanation. E has to be PCIe 5.0 for the x16 slot and for one M.2 NVMe slot. The CPU have 28 PCIe 5.0 lanes, the chipsets zero.
www.techpowerup.com/295394/amd-zen-4-socket-am5-explained-pcie-lanes-chipsets-connectivity
But then the appeal lessens imo for X670 (without PCI-express 5.0 16X, otherwise why not call it X670E?) if you compare it with B650E (for most users)
Also interesting would be the cost difference vs B650, because Robert Hallock made it like 5.0 was a big deal regarding cost in order to justify the existence of the two X670 models.
The non E boards are for reduced cost, as PCIe 5.0 boards cost more to make than PCIe 4.0 boards.
My point was cost and product positioning related.
Maybe some motherboard vendors will further differentiate X670/B650E by offering two PCI-express 5.0 M.2 slots for some X670 models and only one for B650E?
We'll just have to wait and see.
Can you please explain to me if the CPUs has only 20 PCI-express 5.0 lanes as you say how is it possible to have two M.2 PCI-express 5.0?
«With 28 Gen 5 lanes from the CPU, 16 PEG lanes, and 4 chipset lanes, 8 lanes are left. Is it possible for motherboards to have two M.2 slots wired to the processor?
Yes, that is a possibility.»
It's 28 in total, 24 usable.
It's akin to buying a Tesla model S in 2010 for the promise of a "coming soon" full autopilot that will let you do other things whilst the car takes you from A to B. 12 years later, those customers have moved on and probably bought something else, having never been delivered the full autopilot as advertised at purchase.
E is a suffix, not mutually-exclusive to the prefix.