Wednesday, May 28th 2025
AMD Reportedly Discontinues B650 Motherboard Chipset, Insider Predicts Q3'25 Stock Depletion
Yesterday, members of the Bobantang discussion board disclosed intriguing insider knowledge. According to recent industry murmurs, AMD has informed motherboard manufacturing partners about the discontinuation of B650 chipset production. Chinese media outlets have jumped on this alleged revelation, with Western counterparts quickly joining in on the fun (hours later). ITHome and Unika's Hardware were the first channels to parse info from the Bobantang forum. Since a 2022 launch, Team Red's mid-range B650 board design has remained a firm favorite for many budget-conscious owners of Ryzen 7000 (plus 8000G and 9000) series desktop processors. A "direct" successor—B850—reached retail at the start of this year, but higher price points combined with relatively minor feature set advantages have discouraged a lot of buyers. The likes of ASUS, ASRock, Colorful and Sapphire have released (or previewed) new B650 chipset-based mainboard products in 2025—mostly in microATX form factors.
A Bobantang member has prophesized two major trends—the first being: "after AMD's B650 chip production line is shut down, its inventory is expected to be large. According to Team Red, the B650M series inventory sales plan will probably end in the third quarter (of 2025)." A second claim was outlined: "it is expected that the digestion time of the tail end stock of AMD's B650 series motherboard will be longer, at least there will be inventory to sell in the second quarter (of this year), but the inventory of B650M chips will become more and more scarce as time goes by." PC hardware watchdogs propose a fall in B850 pricing; likely expertly timed to occur shortly after the complete depletion of predecessor stock—by the fourth quarter of this year.
Sources:
ITHome, Uniko's Hardware, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, Club386
A Bobantang member has prophesized two major trends—the first being: "after AMD's B650 chip production line is shut down, its inventory is expected to be large. According to Team Red, the B650M series inventory sales plan will probably end in the third quarter (of 2025)." A second claim was outlined: "it is expected that the digestion time of the tail end stock of AMD's B650 series motherboard will be longer, at least there will be inventory to sell in the second quarter (of this year), but the inventory of B650M chips will become more and more scarce as time goes by." PC hardware watchdogs propose a fall in B850 pricing; likely expertly timed to occur shortly after the complete depletion of predecessor stock—by the fourth quarter of this year.
33 Comments on AMD Reportedly Discontinues B650 Motherboard Chipset, Insider Predicts Q3'25 Stock Depletion
Does that mean X670E is discontinued as well?
PCgameshardware.de yesterday only mentioned in german B650. I'm confused if those B650E and X670 and X670E will be discontinued also. I saw lower prices in central europe for certain b650 mainboards.
link to my thread
you can see here i went down a rabbit hole trying to figure it out
Even, A620 and B840 could support Gen5 connectivity, if the PCBs were laid out and built for it. 5.0 slots are SMT, rather than DIP/thru-hole.
TBQH, I still have absolutely no idea what the differences between PROM21s are...
The only downside I see is missing out on Gen5 PCIE in the future. But considering the tests done here on TPU on PCIE scaling, it probably won't matter much.
My Z690 board just got the 0x12F microcode update last week
But bigger numbers like PCIe 5.0 make good marketing to sell boards, even though its a useless spec with current gen of dGPU cards. Heck even the shiny new RDNA4 cards are marketed with PCIe 5 spec despite no where near saturating PCIe 4.0 yet. :laugh:
Plus your signature is lame ass dude. Like maybe impressive with a toddler or something
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Damn, I'm a poet.
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