AMD Reportedly Discontinues B650 Motherboard Chipset, Insider Predicts Q3'25 Stock Depletion

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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.



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[JohH]

In the pictures X670E and B650(E) have the same part number (ending 1018).
Does that mean X670E is discontinued as well?

 

[azrael]

But they're all the same chip(set), Promontory 21. Isn't it more a question of what the manufacturer does with it/them (in case for the E versions)?

 

[_roman_]

I assume those usb controllers and those AMD chipsets, X670 and so on are all made by asmedia.

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.

 

[Why_Me]

Unlike the B850 boards, most all of the B650 boards don't support PCIe 5.0 for the gpu.

 

[Space Lynx]

Unlike the B850 boards, most all of the B650 boards don't support PCIe 5.0 for the gpu.

yep, mine is one of the rare ones that supports gen5 pcie and gen5 nvme. in fact i think it is the only b650 board that does, strange indeed

link to my thread

you can see here i went down a rabbit hole trying to figure it out

 

[Cheeseball]

The newer B850 chipset is just B650 with mandatory PCI-E 5.0 x4/NVMe. AMD should've just renamed it from B650E (mandatory PCI-E 5.0 x16/GPU and x4/NVMe) instead and we'd have PCI-E 5.0 all around.

 

[LabRat 891]

Aight, so AM5's B350 and X370 are getting discontinued. Where's AM5's B550 and X570?

The newer B850 chipset is just B650 with mandatory PCI-E 5.0 x4/NVMe. AMD should've just renamed it from B650E (mandatory PCI-E 5.0 x16/GPU and x4/NVMe) instead and we'd have PCI-E 5.0 all around.

PCIE5.0 on AM5 has 0 to do w/ the chipset; all gen5 lanes are ran 100% off the SoC(CPU).
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...

 

[Nin]

What consequences does it have for consumers if a chipset is discontinued? I understand there won't be any driver updates for it once it's discontinued, but is there any realistic chance of being at a noticeable disadvantage later if you were to put together a new pc with a B650 chipset motherboard now?

 

[fec32a4de]

What consequences does it have for consumers if a chipset is discontinued? I understand there won't be any driver updates for it once it's discontinued, but is there any realistic chance of being at a noticeable disadvantage later if you were to put together a new pc with a B650 chipset motherboard now?

It's going to keep receiving driver updates for a while. AMDs latest chipset drivers support an extremely huge range of products.

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.

 

[Why_Me]

What consequences does it have for consumers if a chipset is discontinued? I understand there won't be any driver updates for it once it's discontinued, but is there any realistic chance of being at a noticeable disadvantage later if you were to put together a new pc with a B650 chipset motherboard now?

The new AMD and Nvidia cards support PCIE 5.0 making the B650 boards obsolete.

 

[blinnbanir]

Nothing new here the same thing happened on AM4. 350 was discontinued when B450 was released.

 

[zzd911]

Well, more expansive motherboard‍

 

[sLowEnd]

What consequences does it have for consumers if a chipset is discontinued? I understand there won't be any driver updates for it once it's discontinued, but is there any realistic chance of being at a noticeable disadvantage later if you were to put together a new pc with a B650 chipset motherboard now?

Mobo makers still support discontinued chipsets for a while afterwards

My Z690 board just got the 0x12F microcode update last week

 

[Launcestonian]

No big deal, just get a B850 when either of my B650 boards die. PCIe 5.0 is useless still, can't even saturate 4.0 yet.
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.

 

[sepheronx]

I'll wait for the flood of chinesium b850 motherboards now.

 

[Space Lynx]

I'll wait for the flood of chinesium b850 motherboards now.

your heatware link your signature doesn't work, might as well just remove it, or get a more baller signature like mine

 

[sepheronx]

your heatware link your signature doesn't work, might as well just remove it, or get a more baller signature like mine

I dunno, I just used the link a mod gave me and it works but when I added via signature it doesn't. So I gave up.

Plus your signature is lame ass dude. Like maybe impressive with a toddler or something

Lolololol burn

 

[A Computer Guy]

I'm going to hold on to my B650 LiveMixer for as long as I can. Soon to be a truly rare and colorful motherboard with both x16 and x4 slots going to the CPU.

 

[Space Lynx]

I dunno, I just used the link a mod gave me and it works but when I added via signature it doesn't. So I gave up.

Plus your signature is lame ass dude. Like maybe impressive with a toddler or something

Lolololol burn

you're just mad because it took you awhile to get there, sadge

 

[sepheronx]

you're just mad because it took you awhile to get there, sadge

Ain't mad homie. I just rock it old school style and think signatures for amateurs.

Damn, I'm a poet.

 

[Rover4444]

Aight, so AM5's B350 and X370 are getting discontinued. Where's AM5's B550 and X570?

I seriously fucking hope the next mobos are actually good because every single X870E board I've seen is a literal downgrade from X670E purely because of where the x16 slots are located on basically all of them, save for maybe some $400+ board or something.

 

[_roman_]

Sometimes it'S smart to buy the previous generation of product a, b, c, d, ...

 

[TheLostSwede]

TBQH, I still have absolutely no idea what the differences between PROM21s are...

Marketing.

I seriously fucking hope the next mobos are actually good because every single X870E board I've seen is a literal downgrade from X670E purely because of where the x16 slots are located on basically all of them, save for maybe some $400+ board or something.

Well, the AM4242 got to go somewhere?

 

[EarthDog]

The new AMD and Nvidia cards support PCIE 5.0 making the B650 boards obsolete.

Do tell...