AMD confirms that X570 and B550 chipsets will support next-gen Zen 3 architecture

[Danny101]

While the multi-year CPU upgrades has been unprecedented and appreciated, but to blame the size of the BIOS chip as reason for non-support is rather weak. . Support for Zen 3 or Ryzen 4000 chip can easily be had if older chip support is dropped from the new BIOS upgrades. C'mon AMD, just be honest. You want to upgrade the whole platform. Which at some point, it is true that older chipsets would hold back the better performance that newer CPUs can deliver and would likely be a waste of money and time trying to marry the 2. Would a Zen 3 chip be pointless on an X370 board? Maybe so.

 

[Irata]

While the multi-year CPU upgrades has been unprecedented and appreciated, but to blame the size of the BIOS chip as reason for non-support is rather weak. . Support for Zen 3 or Ryzen 4000 chip can easily be had if older chip support is dropped from the new BIOS upgrades. C'mon AMD, just be honest. You want to upgrade the whole platform. Which at some point, it is true that older chipsets would hold back the better performance that newer CPUs can deliver and would likely be a waste of money and time trying to marry the 2. Would a Zen 3 chip be pointless on an X370 board? Maybe so.

Dropping support for older CPU may be a problem since the older Ryzen are still being sold in other regions of the world. Imagine the confusion when someone gets a cheap 1700 or Athlon and a 3xx board and the CPU does not work or stops working after a Bios update. Branching the Bios also does not seem like a good idea since that increases cost for the mobo makers and increases the risk of bugs.

That said, since AMD‘s official line was the Bios chip size, it would both look bad if boards with larger Bios chips do not get support, but at the same time this leaves the door open for offering Ryzen 3 support on those few boards without AMD contradicting itself.

I think it would be in AMD‘s best interest to shield their partners from lawsuits since MSI explicitly offered their Max series B450 boards as supporting future AM4 CPU like Ryzen 3.

 

[Danny101]

Dropping support for older CPU may be a problem since the older Ryzen are still being sold in other regions of the world. Imagine the confusion when someone gets a cheap 1700 or Athlon and a 3xx board and the CPU does not work or stops working after a Bios update. Branching the Bios also does not seem like a good idea since that increases cost for the mobo makers and increases the risk of bugs.

That said, since AMD‘s official line was the Bios chip size, it would both look bad if boards with larger Bios chips do not get support, but at the same time this leaves the door open for offering Ryzen 3 support on those few boards without AMD contradicting itself.

I think it would be in AMD‘s best interest to shield their partners from lawsuits since MSI explicitly offered their Max series B450 boards as supporting future AM4 CPU like Ryzen 3.

I would be in the donut hole since I still have the Ryzen 3 1200 in my system. I would gladly trade off the low level support with a BIOS update for the latest CPU. It would mean though that I would have to purchase and interim CPU, which would serve as the bridge. But still being on an X370 board, I think a Zen 2 upgrade would be the most sensible and it's coming time to get a new board going forward. Just waitng on the prices to drop. That's how Zen 3 would help me the most.