Manufacturers release AM5 motherboards with new AMD A620 chipset – Computer – News


A number of producers launched their first motherboards with A620 chipset. This chipset is principally meant for cheaper motherboards and lacks assist for PCIe 5.0, amongst different issues.

ASRockASUS, Gigabyte in MSI all three launched their first AMD A620 motherboards on Friday. The producers solely confirmed micro-ATX motherboards with that chipset. The boards have PCIe 4.0 assist for a video card and SSDs, however don’t supply PCIe 5.0. The motherboards have an AM5 socket for AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors and have two to 4 DIMM slots for DDR5 reminiscence, relying on the mannequin.

ASUS comes with three A620 motherboards and is the one producer to share euro costs for its motherboards, it says in a press launch revealed by VideoCardz. The most affordable mannequin, the Prime A620M-A-CSM, will price 139 euros. The TUF Gaming A620M-Plus prices 149 euros and a WiFi variant of the identical motherboard prices 20 euros additional. ASRock and Gigabyte introduce 4 and two fashions respectively, however don’t share prompt retail costs. MSI introduces a single motherboard, additionally with out mentioning a euro value.

AMD itself has not revealed something about its A620 chipset, which isn’t but listed on the time of writing on the corporate’s web site. There have been earlier than rumors concerning the chipset round. They said, amongst different issues, that A620 wouldn’t assist PCIe 5.0, which now seems to be right. The identical rumor states that USB Gen 3.2 Gen2x2 assist is lacking and that the hyperlink between the CPU and chipset is proscribed to eight PCIe 3.0 lanes, the place that connection runs over eight PCIe 4.0 lanes with the B650 chipset. The flexibility to overclock CPUs would even be lacking, identical to with the earlier A520 collection and earlier entry-level chipsets from AMD. Nonetheless, these particulars haven’t been formally confirmed by AMD.