Important information has been leaked about the new motherboards that we will see at the launch of the new AMD Ryzen 9000 processors, known as Granite Ridge
With the launch of the new Ryzen 9000 series processors AMD seems to be working on it too a review of its motherboard chipset offering.
Just in these hours some information has appeared online that talks about the heir to the highest-end chipset on the market today for AMD motherboards, namely theX870E.
The X870E chipset will equip the highest-end motherboards of the various AMD partners and will represent, similarly to the current X670E which it will replace, the non plus ultra that you can rely on to build a system based on these new processors.
Although AMD has made compatibility an important point to its advantage, the advent of the AM5 platform has started the retirement of the immortal AM4 and has effectively started a new phase with the current AM5 processors which will update to the Ryzen 9000 series further on.
As per practice, the change starts from the top, so the B chipsets currently on the market should remain – at least in an initial phase – available.
Better connectivity
Net of the implementations left to the will of the partners, the canonical question about the advent of a new chipset always concerns what improvements does the new technology bring?
According to YouTuber Law Moore is Dead, the X870E update, compared to the previous X670E, mainly concerns connectivity aspects. AMD, in fact, would be forcing its hand with motherboard manufacturers to guarantee total support for the new USB4 standard.
With this request AMD would force its partners to implement 40 Gbps connectivity to support the new USB standard, but if it is true that this addition could prove to be appreciated by a particularly demanding segment of users, on the other hand it would certainly make the chipset (and consequently the motherboards are a little more complex to make. A complexity that will need to be understood to what extent will come to weigh on the pockets of enthusiasts.
A further point on which AMD could work could also concern memories, with support for much higher speeds than the current ones.
RAM at full speed
It is not unthinkable that AMD is also refining the support for DDR5 memories as much as possible, pushing hard to make the most of the new kits which – thanks to development and ever-increasing maturity – continue to raise the bar with increasingly high frequencies.
Each generation of AMD Ryzen CPUs has always had a precise indication from AMD itself, which indicated to its customers which kits were able to offer the perfect balance between price and performance.
This indication is of great help, especially for the not too technical user, to be able to find in the sea of memories on sale the perfect kit capable of guaranteeing a good increase in performance without requiring hours and hours wasted in the BIOS or in stress tests .
AMD then implemented EXPO technology on the AM5 to further facilitate the overclocking of RAM memories and it seems that thanks to the new X870E chipset we will see really important speeds, even with the DDR5-8000 speed support.
However, we still have no updates on what will happen to the B-range chipsets and motherboards but, with the increasingly widespread adoption of BIOS update technology without the need for an installed processor, we doubt that with the Ryzen 9000 the motherboard update problems that occurred at the time with the arrival of the Ryzen 5000 will happen again.
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