Choice is important, but how to choose this time?
AMD announced the A620 chip for the AM5 platform on April 1 (yes, April Fool’s Day), bringing a cheaper option for the Ryzen 7000 series processors.
When the Ryzen 7000 series processors were first released, the corresponding X670E, X670, B650E and B650 series chip motherboards had a higher price, resulting in a much higher cost of the AM5 platform architecture, especially this time the Ryzen 7000 series processors are still available. Requires DDR5 memory.
600 series chip motherboards are expensive, not without reason, but often motherboard manufacturers can’t make it so clear and clear to the outside world.
Because of this, AMD launched the A620 chip early, so that motherboard manufacturers can import it, and launched the A620 series chip motherboard starting at 85 USD, with the Zen 4 architecture Ryzen 7000 series processor.
AMD briefing mentioned that most A620 chip motherboards can support DDR5-6000 MT/s memory through EXPO, but processor overclocking, PBO and Curve Optimizer will not be supported. In addition, A620 chip motherboards are also recommended to use 65W Ryzen 7000 series processors. Of course, the motherboard can support processors above 65W. However, due to the VRM design of the motherboard, the performance of the processor may be limited when encountering multi-core computing. severely restricted.
Basically, the A620 removes all the PCIe 5.0 bandwidth that the AM5 platform should have (only PCIe 4.0 x16 + PCIe 4.0 x4 is left), and also reduces the total PCIe Lanes to 32, and reduces the USB configuration, such as USB 20Gbps Removed, 10Gbps cut to only 2 groups left…
From the configuration point of view, the A620 chip motherboard can indeed be used as an entry-level motherboard for Ryzen 7000 series processors, as AMD said, using 65W series processors; The 7000-series processors still have to succumb to entry-level motherboards with DDR5 memory, so why not continue to use AM4’s Ryzen 5000-series processors + DDR4 memory?
No wonder AMD chose to announce the A620 chip in a low-key manner on April 1st…
