AMD has announced two new chipsets, X870 and X870E, for its new Ryzen 9000 processor generation, and they’re backwards compatible.
AMD has announced two new motherboard chipsets at Computex 2024 for its upcoming AMD Ryzen 9000 processors, X870 and X870E, which boast some improvements over older models. Previous generation Ryzen 8000 and Ryzen 7000 are confirmed compatible.
The X870 and X870E chipsets will feature USB 4.0 as standard as well as PCIe 5.0 for all of these motherboards for greater bandwidth for supported graphics cards and NVMe SSDs. Additionally, there’s support for higher EXPO memory overclocking so you can take advantage of what the best DDR5 RAM can do in your system.
These two chipsets have been made with the recently unveiled Ryzen 9000 series in mind, however, they will be backwards compatible with the older AM5 chipsets. Likewise, you won’t necessarily have to spring for these latest and greatest offerings if you’re considering a CPU upgrade, as the Ryzen 9000 line will work with existing x670 boards.
It may not sound like too big a jump, but it could make all the difference when gaming as RAM and storage drives become faster.
