Wednesday, July 31st 2019
ASUS Confirms Existence of X590 Boards for AMD Ryzen CPUs
According to VideoCardz'es sources at ASUS, they have received confirmation that ASUS is working on new motherboards for AMD's unannounced chipset offerings, X590 and possibly even X599. In ASUS'es internal documentation two motherboards are appearing with X590 name, PRIME X590-PRO and ROG STRIX X590-E.
These motherboards are named similarly as the current offering from ASUS, the PRIME X570-PRO and ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming, so even though that we don't know if these models will ever hit the market, there is great possibility. Additionally, there is another chipset refresh coming, but now for the HEDT space. ASUS is working on ZENITH II EXTREME, an update to first ZENITH EXTREME motherboard (based on X399 chipset), which is expected to feature updated X599 chipset and should support new ThreadRipper 3000 series of CPUs. For now, we don't have any details of either two chipsets nor the improvements they will bring.
Source:
VideoCardz
These motherboards are named similarly as the current offering from ASUS, the PRIME X570-PRO and ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming, so even though that we don't know if these models will ever hit the market, there is great possibility. Additionally, there is another chipset refresh coming, but now for the HEDT space. ASUS is working on ZENITH II EXTREME, an update to first ZENITH EXTREME motherboard (based on X399 chipset), which is expected to feature updated X599 chipset and should support new ThreadRipper 3000 series of CPUs. For now, we don't have any details of either two chipsets nor the improvements they will bring.
36 Comments on ASUS Confirms Existence of X590 Boards for AMD Ryzen CPUs
X590 for TR upto 32C and X599 for 48C/64C 8 chiplet based TR.
Seems like AMD is pushing the pedal to the metal...
Amd might be waiting for Intel to play its card first.
Atleast on desktop, Laptops however I am mighty excited about cause frequency is usually in 3ghz range and ipc, 10 nm.
Might end up being the jump we all wanted.
Also the improved gpu performance which might get mighty close to vega IGPU which likely will plant Intels feet very steadily in laptops!
To make PCI-4 compatible, they proberly have to comply to changed signalling PCI-4.0 brings into the party.
But the VRM will proberly be overbuild to pieces on which 99% of the users cant even utilitize to its fullest.
So yeah in a way the CPU (AMD) holds a great portion of the chipset, NB, PCI-E, memory controller and what more. The southbridge you see on motherboards is there to make all the connectivity such as S-ata, some PCI-E ports and what more.
Derbaurer tested where the new 11w power consumption came from. It was from the NVME SSD instead of the actual chipset. Without that SSD the thing doesnt even get close to need a heatsink.
But apart from PCI-4.0, 5x0 doesnt offer that much benefit on top of a 4x0 board. Even a high-end 12 core CPU works perfectly fine on a 50$ budget board: www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-tested-on-cheap-b350-motherboard/
Its because AMD changed the rules related to mobo vendors. They have to build a proper VRM in the first place to prevent a clusterfuck that happend on the FX platform, where motherboards where incapable of providing proper power to faster FX CPU´s (Causing throttling, lower performance).