AMD Announces A620 Chipsets For Entry-Level Motherboards, With $85 Starting Price
AMD Announces A620 Chipsets For Entry-Level Motherboards, With $85 Starting Price
The new entry ticket to Ryzen 7000 series has aimed to maintain same pricing on previous generation entry-level A520 motherboards.
AMD has formally launched the A620 chipset for entry-level motherboards: the new entry-level platform retains certain features from higher-end chipsets such as DDR5 support, AMD EXPO support, however PCIe 5.0 is completely jettisoned and in its place are 32 lanes of PCIe 4.0 connections.
The chipmaker claims that most motherboards “will support up to 6000MHz overclocked DDR5” under EXPO profile, but that remains to be seen if motherboard OEMs will stick to AMD’s promise. AMD noted that certain features such as overclocking, PBO, and Curve Optimizer are not supported in this particular platform.
That is for a reason: the company says A620 is ‘ideal’ for 65W-class CPUs, while higher-end CPUs that require more power will see some multicore performance penalties due to VRM limitations. All Ryzen 7000 CPUs will still run on this chipset (assuming AGESA versions match), and AMD says single-core and gaming performance should be minimally affected even if the VRM may not fully support high-power models.
Specs wise, the A620 motherboard supports a total of 32 PCIe 4.0 lanes, with 16 dedicated to GPUs; no processor overclocking is available, however memory overclocking is still unlocked; chipset will provide only two USB 10Gbps (3.2 Gen 2) and two USB 5Gbps (3.2 Gen 1) ports and 6x USB 2.0 ports, with the CPU itself handling the remaining USB connections.
Pokdepinion: Aside from the TDP ‘limitation’ I find this turned out to be pretty solid in terms of specs actually. You can definitely still build a reasonably expandable system with it.
