ASUS has officially announced that the new A520 chipset boards will support the next generation of processors, the Zen 3-based Ryzen 4000.
ASUS confirms support for A520 up to Ryzen 4000 (Zen 3), but is sowing doubts about B450 and X470, although there is little reason for concern
The source of the warning is an official company slide showing the support of all AMD chipsets, including the new A520 chipset, for the different generations of Ryzen processors. Starting with the good stuff, it is confirmed that the A520 will support Matisse (Ryzen 3000), Renoir (Ryzen 4000G APUs), Cezanne (Ryzen 5000G APUs) and Vermeer (Ryzen 4000).
However, the slide does not indicate that the B450 and X470 boards will provide support for Ryzen 4000, which contradicts AMD’s announcement in May after the decision not to offer it was corrected.
However, there are reasons to remain calm: The same slide indicates that B350 and X370 do not support Ryzen 3000, which is not true. At least a good part of the Asus boards (or all) with these chipsets offer full support for this generation of processors.
The slides released by AMD in May, which raised a similar alarm and showed the same… inaccuracies?
So it makes a lot of sense to believe that the same thing will happen as with the slides released by AMD in May, which are almost a copy of the ASUS slides that had exactly the same inaccuracies.
This information is somewhat disturbing for those of us who want AMD to maintain and support Ryzen 4000 on B450 and X470. But in the news we give more than enough reasons to be relatively calm and confident that these chipsets will support the new generation of Zen 3 processors, even with limitations.
In any case, we will be on our guard, because if AMD breaks its promise to support Ryzen 4000 on B450 and X470, or a board manufacturer decides to break it, this is deeply reprehensible and a real deception of consumers.