AMD Might Be Working on Z490 Chipset - Would Get More and Faster PCIe Lanes

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/17/2018 03:03 PM | source: | 21 comment(s)

A new slide leaked today, it shows all AMD chipset, including one called Z490. That's interesting as it's the first time we've heard of it. The new chipset would add more PCIe lanes, but also make them faster.

The new Z490 would see 12 PCI-Express lanes (was 8). What's interesting, AMD chipsets use PCIe 2.0 right, the new one would add four PCIe Gen 3.0 lanes which clearly indicates a direct connect for say an extra M2 SSD. Currently, a Ryzen processor offers 16 full Gen lanes for the graphics card, then four gen 3 for NVME storage and then the ones for the interlink in-between the Chipset and processor.

The leak allegedly was spotted on the EVGA forums mentions videocardz and supposedly came from official presentation of Gigabyte AORUS X470 motherboards. We have no idea about the actual validity of the slide though.

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Romulus_ut3
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#5538407 Posted on: 04/17/2018 03:22 PM

AMD in recent times have used the prefix "X" in naming their High End Enthusiast Chipset. I don't see them using "Z" and we already know that there's a Z390 in the works from intel.

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#5538409 Posted on: 04/17/2018 03:23 PM

That's a little confusing, because isn't it X390 (and presumably X490) for Threadripper?

The 400 series motherboards are already underwhelming as-is. Instead of this Z490, they should've just added the extra lanes to the X470.

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#5538413 Posted on: 04/17/2018 03:28 PM

I like the "Y". I would like the "Y" to get a little love. Y470.... I like it.

It is a bit confusing with the Z.

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#5538420 Posted on: 04/17/2018 03:55 PM

The slide has been doctored. If you simply go up to the header the z490 is listed under Chipset General Purpose PCIe ------>GEN2<------ The Z490 is supposedly gen3 and would have its own slide with its own header not just lumped in with the others as an after thought. Btw Intel is working on a z490 for Coffe Lake so this is where the idea probably came from. Come on you have to do better than this!

As of May 5th AMD is making a z490 mb but there are no specifics on it's spec's.

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#5538452 Posted on: 04/17/2018 05:50 PM

i wish PCIE 4.0 would just come out already, what's the hold up?

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