Launch of AMD B850 and B840 Chipsets Pushed to Q1-2025

[JWNoctis]

Like it even matters when switching to PCIE 3.0 x16 for the RTX 4090 results in a 2% dent on average. Pointless complaint.

A lot of people would not buy a video card or a processor with the full x16 bus width in that segment. I think it would have been more realistic to benchmark it with a 8500G, or a RX 6500 XT, which would be PCIe 3.0 x4. PCIe bandwidth mattered much less when there is sufficient VRAM.

As to the chipset themselves, they hardly bring anything new to the table anyway, when the core southbridge chip is the very same, and USB4 is external to that chip. Buying a new motherboard right now would miss out on very little if anything in real term, and precisely nothing if you'd rather a third M.2 slot without eating into PEG lanes over 40Gbps USB4.

 

[Ruru]

Gen3... but why? I get that it's an entry-level chipset, but still? Someone could use a card like RX 6500 XT, 6600 (XT) or RTX 4060 (Ti) or something which is limited by PCIe lanes, so running those in 3.0 shows noticeable difference.

 

[Minus Infinity]

Roll on Arrow Lake, so we can see if we are entirely fcuked with these next gen MB's.

X870 looks like a garbage update, B850 even worse, B840 utter trash. Oh and most MB manufacturers are producing over-priced trash.

Are there any rumours if Z890 brings actual improvements over Z790, other than maybe TB5?

 

[Bwaze]

Yeah, this year's generations all look like they don't even want to sell them. Ryzen 9000 looks like just a rebadge, so everything connected will have a hard time gaining any enthusiasm.