- AMD is launching the X870 and X870E chipsets this year for the Ryzen 9000 CPUs.
- The more budget-friendly options have been delayed to 2025 to focus on the higher-end options.
- All these motherboards come with various advantages, but the B450 lineup is best suited to budget gamers.
With Intel gearing up to launch its Intel Core Ultra 200K CPUs, AMD has also decided to go all out for its users to compete head-to-head with Intel.
The budget-friendly B840 and B850 chipsets, which were going to launch this year, have reportedly been delayed to the next. Instead, the Red Team will launch X870 and X870E chipsets this year for its Ryzen 9000 series CPUs.
These chipsets were going to accompany the best motherboard models for AM5 and Zen 5. But the price of this set is the biggest setback, that’s where B840 and B850 steps in.
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As seen above, the B850 chipset provides nearly everything a gamer may require, including overclocking. The B840 is the best option for people who don’t need much more power than CPU performance and don’t mind losing 2% of GPU performance because of PCIe 3.0 x16.
This is essentially the same as what has been occurring with their predecessors. AMD claims that the X870 and X870E chipset motherboards will compete with Intel’s Z790 and have native PCI-E 5.0 capability.
However, as Zen 5 will compete with more recent Intel processors, the X870/E will likely face off against Z890 motherboards for Arrow Lake CPUs. The Z890 motherboards are scheduled to arrive on 17 October.
We will learn about the performance of these CPUs when the comparisons arrive, but from what we have seen, it seems that they will be quite equal.
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