Posted on Monday, June 03 2019 @ 12:17 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
In a chat with PCGamesN, AMD enthusiast desktop marketing team guy Donny Woligroski
confirmed that the arrival of the X570 will not make the current B450 or X470 chipsets irrelevant. Woligroski said the X570 will offer the most advanced features, which includes PCI Express 4.0 support, but he promised that CPU performance will be the same on the 400-series as on the X570 motherboards.
“Just because the X570 exists,” says Woligroski, “and just because the X570 is the most advanced chipset you can get in 2019, that doesn’t mean that the B450 or X470 chipsets are no longer relevant.
“If someone’s searching for a platform, and doesn’t really need that enthusiast-class PCIe Gen4 storage, or you’re not planning to buy a PCIe Gen 4 graphics card in the next six months to a year, it makes a lot of sense to look at those lower-tier boards like the X470 and B450, which will offer the same performance on those 3rd Gen Ryzen processors as the X570 will.”
