AMD has already confirmed that its new Zen 5 CPUs will likely be launched in July 2024, nevertheless it seems as if it’s planning to launch its supporting new motherboards later within the yr. In response to the newest leak, the AMD X870 motherboard launch date is anticipated to come a few months after its first new Ryzen 9000 CPUs come out.
With AMD going huge on the newest PCIe 5.0 and USB 4 requirements in its new X870 and X870E chipsets, it’s doubtless these new chipsets will energy a number of of the greatest gaming motherboards you should purchase once they come out. You gained’t want one in all these new motherboards to run a Ryzen 9000-series Zen 5 CPU, although, as they’ll additionally fortunately slot into any present Socket AM5 motherboard, so long as you flash the BIOS first.
This newest leak comes courtesy of tech website Wccftech, which claims to have spoken to nameless sources within the business, who’ve reportedly confirmed that the AMD X870 motherboard launch date is September 30, 2024.
If this rumor is true, which means we might doubtlessly see AMD’s new X870 and X870E motherboards popping out concurrently AMD’s new Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs with 3D V-cache, that are rumored to be popping out in an identical timeframe.
Whereas loads of AMD’s present Socket AM5 motherboards, based mostly on the X670E, X670, and B650 chipsets, already assist PCIe 5.0 and USB 4, these chipset releases see these new connections changing into commonplace.
Specifically, the brand new X870 chipset now has 24 PCIe 5.0 lanes at its disposal, in contrast with simply eight on the earlier X670 chipset. Meaning an X870 motherboard can not solely assist a full 16x PCIe 5.0 graphics slot, however it could additionally accommodate the newest super-fast 4x PCIe 5.0 SSDs, such because the Essential T705, on the identical time.
Each the brand new chipsets additionally now assist the brand new quicker USB 4 connection as a regular function, when it was beforehand solely an optionally available additional that might be added by a motherboard producer. USB 4 presents as much as 40Gbps of bandwidth, which is double the velocity of the USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 interface.
In the meantime, the flagship X870E chipset presents extra high-speed USB ports than the X870 chipset, together with eight extra PCIe 4.0 lanes, and 4 extra SATA ports. Nonetheless, not like X670, the usual X870 chipset seems set to cowl all of the necessities if you wish to construct a PC with a excessive spec in 2024.
AMD additionally guarantees that X870 and X870E motherboards will have the ability to assist increased reminiscence clock speeds than their predecessors, utilizing its EXPO RAM profile system. A number of motherboard makers had been displaying off their new X870 and X870E motherboards at Computex after we went to the tradeshow, together with the brand new Gigabyte X870E Aorus Xtreme, which is pictured above.
Within the meantime, if you wish to purchase a brand new gaming CPU proper now, our high suggestion is the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which presents incredible gaming efficiency due to its huge stack of cache.
