AMD’s preview at CES has sparked a rather entertaining debate about the new Zen 2 architecture, which looks as if it will come onto the market around June, with new chipsets being introduced that will breathe life into a number of new motherboards. Today we know that AMD could leave ASMedia to design and build all their chipsets.
On this occasion it does not seem to be a rumour, but comments that point in different directions through contacts close to product development according to Gamersnexus. In any case, there are several points that are very interesting.
The first is the production of AMD chipsets, where, as we know, ASMedia was previously responsible for production. AMD confirms that Zen 2 on X470 will only have PCIe Gen 3 and Radeon VII will not support Gen 4.
It seems that ASMedia will not be involved in the design or development of the upcoming new chip series, with the X570 at the forefront, as AMD says it will take care of the whole process.
This means an almost double increase in consumption first, because for example the X470 chipset has an average consumption of between 6 and 8 watts, while the X570 would get about 15 watts according to the comments.
It seems that this will be due to the fact that X570 offers higher performance than X470, where will it be possible to support PCIe 4.0 or not?
The truth is that there is a lot of contradictory information about the PCIe bus because some sources report that it could only contain version 3.0, while others claim that it will eventually be PCIe 4.0 that supports the chipsets that are protected in the I / S devices, at least X570.
In addition, a new chipset called B550 has been announced which is expected to be launched in the third quarter and will provide a temporary space for the sale of X570 as the spearhead for the 3000 series of the new Ryzen.
Some of the things we talked about back then were also mentioned, such as the compatibility between X470 and X570 with PCIe 4.0, as we should not forget that the Ryzen 3000 series will maintain compatibility with previous chipsets.
At this point, everything stays the same: It is extremely unlikely that manufacturers will upgrade their X470 boards to support PCIe 4.0 electrical cabling.
What they will do, which is logical, is make a normal transition to X570, which in turn will provoke the purchase of boards for users who want to get the new version of the port.
There would only be certain specific models in X470 (we’re assuming an extreme range) that would have an electrical design that would be good enough to allow the routing of the new PCIe 4.0, but as we say, this is an assumption.
Even AMD, which hasn’t finished the specifications of its chipsets, can change all this in 6 months, more than enough time to polish and focus a number of chips that breathe life into and support the more than expected Zen 2 architecture.
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