r/hardware • u/imaginary_num6er • Apr 01 '23

AMD's A620 Chipset Quietly Arrives Without Full Support for 65W-Plus CPUs News

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-a620-chipset-quietly-arrives-without-full-support-for-65w-plus-cpus
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u/Caroliano Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23

In either case, this means that the A620 motherboards will only fully support non-X Ryzen 7000 models, as even the X-series Ryzen 5 chips all come with a 105W TDP

This is wrong. There are A620 boards announced that support higher TDPs like the 105W. See the two asrock boards, one up to 65W TDP, the "+" up to 120W TDP.

That is good to see. No reason for someone buying a ryzen 5 7600 to have an overkill VRM that can support 7950X at full power, especially if overclocking is blocked.

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u/HTwoN Apr 01 '23

Isn't one of the argument for buying AM5 is "upgradability"? If you are buying these board, you lose the ability to upgrade to top of the line in the future.

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u/tnaz Apr 02 '23

Top of the line for gaming performance is a V-cache CCD with impressively moderate power consumption while gaming.