AMD X370 B350 A320 X300 and B300 / A300 Compared - Only SLI for X370
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Aura89
Anyone else find it odd that the SFF chipsets add PCI-Express 3.0 rather then 2.0?
Also, this just confirms what i've been saying about SFF and USB, they do indeed have more then just what the processor gives
WareTernal
Asgardi
Aura89
will87
Will all of these chipsets be able to run a PCI-e 3.0 x 4 M.2 SSD at full speed then?
cryohellinc
smear campaign, cheap and dirty.
HeavyHemi
SSD_PRO
Back the horses up on this one. This can't be real. You need PCIe 3.0 x4 to run modern M.2 drives and they come close to saturating at max loads. Unless they are going to allocate the remaining 4 lanes from the CPU to run M.2 direct, this would be a problem. Limiting the chipset to old PCIe 2.0 would be eyeroll but not un-amd. AMD has always suffered from reduced storage performance. My bet is this is fake. If real, not a deal breaker but very disappointing.
For anyone wanting to see the Z270 block diagram, here it is: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/diagrams/z270-chipset-block-diagram-16x9.png.rendition.intel.web.1072.603.png
edit - actually, now looking again, I see the * on the 20 lanes from the CPU. It drops to 18 if SATA is in use? I guess the suggestions is there are 16 lanes for graphics and 4 left for M.2/U.2, as long as you don't use any SATA ports? If you do then you get x2? Uh.... again I smell fake.
Aura89
ChicagoDave
https://ark.intel.com/products/97129/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_50-GHz
and
https://ark.intel.com/products/97129/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_50-GHz
Sure:
PCIe 3.0 Lanes - X370 = 0 | Z270 = 24
PCIe 2.0 Lanes - X370 = 8 | Z270 = included in above
PCIe Lanes From CPU - Ryzen = 20x3.0 | I7-7700K = 16x3.0
USB 3.1 Gen 2 - X370 = 2 | Z270 = 0
USB 3.0 - X370 = 6 | Z270 = 10
USB 2.0 - X370 = 6 | Z270 = 14
SATA 6GBit - X370 = 4 | Z270 = 6
RAID Configuration - X370 = 0/1/10 | Z270 = 0/1/5/10
Intel info taken from:
Valken
Hmm... Seems Intel would be the best bet for M2 Ultra/mGPU users.
For single GPU and M2 Ultra, Ryzen looks good but only at X370.
My MB/CPU would not support CFX or SLI with M2 and that was one reason why I got a regular SATA SSD instead so caveat emptor.
schmidtbag
Aura89
HeavyHemi
Maybe this makes it a bit more clear
http://www.intel.fr/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/diagrams/z270-chipset-block-diagram-16x9.png.rendition.intel.web.1280.720.png
https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAmFAAAAJDRiYzNjM2Q3LWVmNTktNDg4NC1iNDgwLTY4MjU5YzdjMzNhNA.jpg
https://images.everyeye.it/img-singole/articolo-12386.jpg
RooiKreef
Huh? This looks a bit odd thought. How can their top chip not even support PCIe 3.0?? My Z68 from intel even supported this and that is waaay back. I honestly will take this info with a grain of salt.
HeavyHemi
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-x370-b350-a320-x300-and-b300-a300-compared-only-sli-for-x370.html
There's the Chipset, then there is what is from the CPU:
My bad, I thought I had the other chart in there.
sverek
X300 looks good enough to me.
Aura89
zer0_c0ol
which is a shame for all old sli users
FerCam™
From what has been said about x300 chipset, an ATX (full) MB based on it would be close to perfect with almost no components on it, hence much less EMI.