The slides, which were leaked onto Gamers.com.tw, appear to be a few months old given that the B450 platform and Athlon 200GE are still in red (signifying they weren\u2019t launched yet). In a way, however, this adds to their credibility.…<\/b>
\nThe slides, which were leaked onto Gamers.com.tw, appear to be a few months old given that the B450 platform and Athlon 200GE are still in red (signifying they weren\u2019t launched yet). In a way, however, this adds to their credibility.
The only features revealed about the X570 platform are that it will be the first platform to support PCI-E 4.0 and that it will support all AMD Ryzen processors, past, present and future. PCI-E 4.0 is set to provide up to 16 gigatransfers per second (GT\/s), doubling the bandwidth provided by PCI Express 3.0 while maintaining backward and forward compatibility, but it\u2019s unknown if it will offer any short term performance improvements on current-gen GPUs. It\u2019s possible however that AMD\u2019s next generation of graphics cards will be designed to take advantage of it. The X570 chipset would launch at Computex 2019, which runs from May 28 to June 1st.
A second slide shows two new Intel chipsets, B365 and H310C, but doesn\u2019t offer any information on them. More interesting is the fact that it lists \u201cGlacier Falls\u201d as a High-End Desktop (HEDT) architecture. If it does arrive mid-next year, it would cut short the lifespan of the recently released 9000XE series. This wouldn\u2019t be all that surprising given how they compare to Threadripper 2.
The last image lists the names of a bunch of new Intel processors: the i9-9900KF, i7-9700KF, i5-9600KF, i5-9400F, i3-9350KF and the i3-8100F. The text appears to suggest that the \u201cKF\u201d processors won\u2019t have integrated graphics, but there\u2019s no information on what the \u201cF\u201d might mean.
While none of this information guarantees better performance in future products, it certainly shows that AMD and Intel are dialing up the heat. When AMD\u2019s Zen 2 is announced sometime around January next year, expect it to make a big splash.<\/p>\n