[Hardware] AMD X670E, X670, B650 Chipsets For Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ CPUs Reportedly Being Unveiled at Computex 2022

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Website TechPowerUp contends that the unreleased, but upcoming AMD X670, X670E, and B650 chipsets for Ryzen 7000 'Raphael' Desktop CPUs will be revealed at Computex 2022, next week.

 

AMD X670E, X670, B650 Chipsets To Be Detailed Next Week at Computex 2022, Next-Gen AM5 Platform For Ryzen 7000 'Raphael' Desktop CPUs

Further claims made by the website include that the X670 series will offer a high-tier X670E (E for Extreme) chipset that will provide PCIe Express Gen 5.0 support that will aid both storage & GPUs. The X670 standard chipset is planned to support both PCIe Gen 4.0 and PCIe Gen 5.0 support but that would be a vendor-specific decision while the X670E chipset will have mandatory PCIe Gen 5.0 support for both devices. All new chips will require the more recent DDR5 memory, which is costly at the moment.

 

We can now tell you that the X670E will be a special SKU where the E stands for Extreme. Based on the information we’ve managed to source, it doesn’t seem to differ from the X670 chipset in terms of functionality or features. However, all X670E motherboards must offer PCIe 5.0 connectivity to both the GPU and the M.2 NVMe SSD slot or possibly slots, whereas X670 based motherboards can use PCIe 4.0 instead […]

 

Similar rumors are floating in tech media circles. It adds a little more validity to the claim, but questions about TechPowerUp's post are now arising. The website has pulled the story as well as on their Twitter page. Our editor, Hassan Mujtaba, was also able to confirm a similar report earlier this week which comes from sources close to AMD.The unreleased but planned AMD X670 chipset will offer dual Promontory 21 chipsets made by ASMedia, which was confirmed in a story on rival Tom's Hardware over a month ago. The overall consensus will be that users will be expected to pay a high price for the following three available chipsets, especially with the high costs of utilizing DDR5 memory currently. We will update this story as more information develops.

 

AMD Mainstream Desktop CPU Generations Comparison:

AMD CPU Family	Codename	Processor Process	Processors Cores/Threads (Max)	TDPs	Platform	Platform Chipset	Memory Support	PCIe Support	Launch
Ryzen 1000	Summit Ridge	14nm (Zen 1)	8/16	95W	AM4	300-Series	DDR4-2677	Gen 3.0	2017
Ryzen 2000	Pinnacle Ridge	12nm (Zen +)	8/16	105W	AM4	400-Series	DDR4-2933	Gen 3.0	2018
Ryzen 3000	Matisse	7nm (Zen 2)	16/32	105W	AM4	500-Series	DDR4-3200	Gen 4.0	2019
Ryzen 5000	Vermeer	7nm (Zen 3)	16/32	105W	AM4	500-Series	DDR4-3200	Gen 4.0	2020
Ryzen 5000 3D	Warhol?	7nm (Zen 3D)	8/16	105W	AM4	500-Series	DDR4-3200	Gen 4.0	2022
Ryzen 7000	Raphael	5nm (Zen 4)	16/32?	105-170W	AM5	600-Series	DDR5-5200/5600?	Gen 5.0	2022
Ryzen 7000 3D	Raphael	5nm (Zen 4)	16/32?	105-170W	AM5	600-Series	DDR5-5200/5600?	Gen 5.0	2023
Ryzen 8000	Granite Ridge	3nm (Zen 5)?	TBA	TBA	AM5	700-Series?	DDR5-5600+	Gen 5.0	2024-2025?