Monday, September 30th 2024
AMD X870E and X870 Motherboards Have Been Released, Prices Start at $199 Up To $699
Major AMD partners like ASUS, ASRock, GIGABYTE, and MSI have unveiled their latest AMD AM5 motherboards featuring the X870E and X870 chipsets. The new motherboards offer broad compatibility, supporting not only the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 series, but also the Ryzen 8000 and 7000 CPUs. These boards are aimed at high-end and enthusiast users, sporting optimized VRM designs and enhanced I/O capabilities, including WiFi 7 and USB 4 support.
The motherboards are all in ATX format; however, mATX/ITX models should follow later this year. They all support DDR5-5600 MT/s memory speeds natively, with some models supporting over 8000 MT/s memory speeds. In terms of chipset, the X870E series uses two Promontory 21 dies with support for USB 4 and Gen 5 GPU/SSD (24x Gen 5 CPU Lanes, 8x Gen 4 + 12x Gen 3 PCH Lanes). The X870 will use just one of the dies, retaining the Gen 5 lanes, however the PCH Lanes will be limited to 4x Gen 4 + 8x Gen 3.From the current batch of motherboards, if we look at prices from Newegg US, the cheapest is the ASRock X870 PRO RS listed at $199.99, while at the other end we have the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E HERO available for $699.99, for which we already published our extensive review here. Stay tuned for more X870E/X870 motherboard reviews in the coming days. Our team has just grown with the addition of a new hardware reviewer.
ASUS Motherboards
Sources:
Videocardz, Wccftech
The motherboards are all in ATX format; however, mATX/ITX models should follow later this year. They all support DDR5-5600 MT/s memory speeds natively, with some models supporting over 8000 MT/s memory speeds. In terms of chipset, the X870E series uses two Promontory 21 dies with support for USB 4 and Gen 5 GPU/SSD (24x Gen 5 CPU Lanes, 8x Gen 4 + 12x Gen 3 PCH Lanes). The X870 will use just one of the dies, retaining the Gen 5 lanes, however the PCH Lanes will be limited to 4x Gen 4 + 8x Gen 3.From the current batch of motherboards, if we look at prices from Newegg US, the cheapest is the ASRock X870 PRO RS listed at $199.99, while at the other end we have the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E HERO available for $699.99, for which we already published our extensive review here. Stay tuned for more X870E/X870 motherboard reviews in the coming days. Our team has just grown with the addition of a new hardware reviewer.
ASUS Motherboards
- ASUS PRIME X870-P WIFI - $249.99
ASUS TUF Gaming X870-PLUS WIFI - $309.99
ASUS ROG STRIX X870-A Gaming WIFI - $369.99
ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator WIFI - $479.99
ASUS ROG STRIX X870E Gaming WIFI - $499.99
ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E HERO - $699.99
- ASRock X870 PRO RS - $199.99
ASRock X870 PRO RS WIFI - $209.99
ASRock X870 Steel Legend WIFI - $259.99
ASRock X870 RIPTIDE WIFE - $279.99
ASRock X870E NOVA WIFI - $349.99
ASRock X870E Taichi LITE - $399.99
ASRock X870E Taichi - $449.99
- GIGABYTE X870 Gaming WIFI6 - $219.99
GIGABYTE X870 Eagle WIFI7 - $229.99
GIGABYTE X870 Gaming X WIFI7 - $249.99
GIGABYTE X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 - $289.99
GIGABYTE X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ICE - $289.99
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 - $319.99
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS PRO - $359.99
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS PRO ICE - $359.99
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Master - $499.99
- MSI PRO X870-P WIFI - $239.99
MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WIFI - $299.99
MSI MPG X870E Carbon WIFI - $499.99
62 Comments on AMD X870E and X870 Motherboards Have Been Released, Prices Start at $199 Up To $699
It has the same chipset config as b650/b650e, with a single promontory 21, whereas the x670 and x670e have two of those daisy chained.
Given how USB4 is now mandatory, mobos that didn't have it before will need to sacrifice some PCIe lanes to accomodate it now.
Apart from that, there were no real chipset changes, it's the same promontory 21 chip being used like the previous gen.
I wonder how the B850 chipset will differ from the x870 one. If it's going to be just the NVMe being capped at PCIe 4.0, it will really canibalize x870.
What are people waiting to connect to these mandatory ports?
I hope buyers are aware of the following. Many mainboards have add in cards to add the USB 4 functionality from the manufacturer. Most important the Wattage of those USB4 ports from the add in card is sometimes much higher as from those new 870 AMD mainboards.
When you use an add in card with usb 4 like MSI and ASUS have on their homepage you have to wire manually the DP in port. So you could wire from your graphic card to the usb 4 add in card the display port signal. I doubt that this is possible with an onboard usb 4 port on the mainboard most of the cases. USB 4 is dead on arrival. It should have been up to 5 devices in daisy chain which includes two displays. When I need an extra power cord for a display it's kinda useless for myself.
I do not get the point for daisy chain with usb 4. I understand the basics. It makes sense for a bus on a printed circuit board. For usb it does not make sense. We already have USB 3.x hubs. Sometimes included in keyboard and monitors. One "input" line (yes i know a bus is bidirectonal) and at least one "output" for an usb hub.
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In my area some mainboards were listened for several days. For around a day they are listened without a shipping date. A paper launch without any goods in central europe.
I miscalculated on a price drop for older existing AM5 mainboards.
AMD managed to segment the boards more so only X870E is a bit of an upgrade to myself. X870 or below chipsets are just not worth it.
Not sure how relevant it is for the average gamer though, I'd assume not much (if at all).
Simplify and make the naming scheme make sense. A is the highest tier, B is the second, C is the third, and Sequence your numbers so they make sense like so:
X870E > A880 or A870X2
X870 > B870 or A870
B850 > C860 or B860
B840 > D850 or C850
Now no one is confused on what tier of motherboard they're getting.
The X870 is just a fancy name for the X670S
Overpriced? Absolutely. There is no real reason why anyone who has a last generation's motherboard to upgrade.
If you have noticed the theme of AMD lately, the 9000 series of CPU was MEH!!!
These mother boards are MEH!!!
We are in the New AMD MEH!!! Generation....
Nothing more than a refresh with bells and whisles and a NEW price TAG...TAG...TAG...
www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/prime/prime-x870-p-wifi/techspec/
WIFI 7 seems to lock you in to Windows 11. Gnu Linux - Freebsd and other operating systems not supported
or possible. Happy explaining to a newbie why something does not work. Raid 5 works only with Ryzen 9000 (software raid?)(the following list is about the M2 NVME storage bays on the mainboard) Lane sharing which disables something. Same bigger list for the 8000 processors which I will not post now. Which will confuse more a newbie.
X870 is the B650E plus the ASM4242.
Disgusting...
Not even for the 10Gbit LAN, yet the W11 driver seems to have the W10 files.
I am not confusing anything, but the lack of real innovation. Sarcastically: this X870 should be called as X670S as the X570 later got a slightly better X570S version which is not even listed on AMD's site
hence no innovation there
Your current wifi is a realtek one. The manual for those new x870 mobos is not available yet, so we can't know which exact wireless chipset they're using, but I'd bet it's already supported on linux, and that the vendor has drivers available for Windows 10.
If I get there, I certainly will get one of this:
ProGrade Digital CFexpress Type B USB 4
For example
Additional or optional, sure. This is the reply I was looking for. Please consider my question answered.
:lovetpu:
Any chance we can get the whole slide deck from AMD's presentation? I start missing AnandTech. :(
The original USB 3.0 (5Gbps) 15 years ago and now the standard is the USB 3.1 gen1 (10Gbps) been released 11 years ago.
That is longer time between USB2.0 and USB3.0. So it is a good time to push for USB4
I think this is a hard limit for portable storage (portable SSD-s) like Samsung T7, you will see, those are usually do 500~800 MB/s.
Would be nice to see that limitation lifted!
Also would like to see that USB3 mess with USB3.0, USB3.1 gen1, USB3.1 gen2 and USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 :slap: