The AMD X570 Motherboard Overview: Over 35+ Motherboards Analyzed
by Gavin Bonshor on July 9, 2019 8:00 AM ESTX570 Power Delivery Specification & Comparison
One of the most talked about aspects of any high-end motherboard lately is the quality of its power delivery system. At a high level, all X570 motherboards have to adhere to a couple of factors, the most important of which is support for the upcoming Ryzen 3950X 16c/32t processor. This means manufacturers needed to work even harder in creating suitable and efficient power delivery systems to ensure full compatibility with the Ryzen 3000 series.
Meanwhile, we're also keeping a look out for any cases where manufacturers may be embellishing their power delivery claims, advertising a board as being more capable than it really is. After some bad history and what has happened in the last two years there, we hope to (and expect) to see less of that with the X570 chipset.
As power delivery is usually one of the most requested items for any of our motherboard content, prior to the launch we reached out to all the motherboard vendors to find out what power delivery systems each of their new X570 boards are equipped with. Below is a table of the official information we have compiled from each of the vendors, with a question mark (?) denotes when we don't have information available.
Please note that this information is self-reported, so until we can review any given X570 board, we're operating on the honor system, trusting vendors to supply honest and upfront information. And we will be checking, and we will be keeping this page up-to-date as more information becomes available.
| X570 CPU Power Delivery Comparison | |||||
| Motherboard | Controller | H-Side | L-Side | Chokes | Doubler |
| ASRock X570 Aqua | IR35201 (6+2) |
IR3555 (12) |
12 | IR3599 (6) |
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| ASRock X570 Creator | IR35201 (6+2) |
IR3555 (12) |
12 | IR3599 (6) |
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| ASRock X570 Taichi | ISL69147 (6+2) |
SIC634 (12) |
SIC632A (12) |
12 | ISL6617A (4) |
| ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X | ISL69147 (6+2) |
SIC634 (12) |
SIC632A (12) |
12 | ISL6617A (4) |
| ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 | UP9505PQGW (4+2) |
UP1962SD (8) |
8 | UP1961SQ (4) |
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| ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX TB3 | ISL69147 (4+2) |
ISL99227 (8) |
8 | ISL6617A (4) |
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| ASRock X570 Steel Legend | ISL69147 (4+2) |
SIC634 (8) |
SIC632A (8) |
8 | ISL6617A (4) |
| ASRock X570 Extreme4 | ISL69147 (4+2) |
SIC634 (8) |
SIC632A (8) |
8 | ISL6617A (4) |
| ASRock X570 Pro4 | UP9505PQGW (4+2) |
UP1962SD (8) |
8 | UP1961SQ (4) |
|
| ASRock X570M Pro4 | UP9505PQGW (4+2) |
UP1962SD (8) |
8 | UP1961SQ (4) |
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| ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Formula | ASP1405I (7+1) |
IR3555 (14) |
14 | - | |
| ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero | ASP1405I (7+1) |
IR3555 (14) |
14 | - | |
| ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact | ASP1405I (7+1) |
TDA21472 (8) |
8 | - | |
| ASUS Pro WS X570-Ace | ASP1405I (7+1) |
IR3555 (12) |
12 | - | |
| ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming | ASP1405I (6+2) |
IR3555 (12) |
12 | - | |
| ASUS ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | ASP1106G (4+2) |
Sic639 (12) |
12 | - | |
| ASUS ROG Strix X570-I Gaming | ASP1405I (6+2) |
TDA21472 (8) |
8 | - | |
| ASUS TUF X570-Plus | ASP1106G (4+2) |
Sic639 (12) |
12 | - | |
| ASUS Prime X570-Pro | ASP1106G (4+2) |
Sic639 (12) |
12 | - | |
| GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Xtreme | IR XDPE132G5C (14+2) |
TDA21472 (14) |
14 | - | |
| GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Master | IR XDPE132G5C (12+2) |
IR3556 (12) |
12 | - | |
| GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Ultra | IR35201 (6+2) |
IR3553 (12) |
12 | IR3599 (6) |
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| GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Pro/WIFI | IR35201 (6+2) |
IR3553 (12) |
12 | IR3599 (6) |
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| GIGABYTE X570 I Aorus Pro WIFI | IR35201 (6+2) |
TDA21472 (6) |
6 | - | |
| GIGABYTE X570 Aorus Elite | ISL69138 (6+1) |
Vishay DrMOS (12) |
12 | SL6617A (6) |
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| GIGABYTE X570 Gaming X | ISL69147 (5+2) |
ISL6625A (10) |
10 | SL6617A (5) |
|
| MSI MEG X570 Godlike | IR35201 (7+1) |
TDA21472 (14) |
14 | IR3599 (7) |
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| MSI MEG X570 Ace | IR35201 (6+2) |
IR3555 (12) |
12 | IR3599 (6) |
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| MSI Prestige X570 Creation | IR35201 (6+2) |
IR3555 (12) |
12 | IR3599 (6) |
|
| MSI MPG X570 Gaming Pro Carbon WIFI | IR35201 (5+1) |
QA3111N6N (10) |
10 | IR3598 (5) |
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| MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge WIFI | IR35201 (4+2) |
S4C029N (8) |
S4C024N (8) |
8 | IR3598 (4) |
| MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus | IR35201 (4+2) |
S4C029N (8) |
S4C024N (8) |
8 | IR3598 (4) |
| MSI X570-A Pro | IR35201 (4+2) |
S4C029N (8 |
S4C024N (8) |
8 | IR3598 (4) |
As we get more information from vendors or reputable sources, we will update the table. As we get more and more X570 boards in for review, we can go deeper into the analysis in each individual review over the upcoming months.
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Gastec - Saturday, July 13, 2019 - link
Have I been living under a rock in the last 5 years, when did the prices of motherboards doubled?Kougar - Monday, July 15, 2019 - link
Sincerely appreciate the multi-G table on the last page. Was thinking multi-gig would be more commonplace with this generation but guess I was wrong.So much useless stuff on these boards, would trade almost all of it and the Wifi in favor of just a 5G NIC. Not sure mobo manufacturers have realized just how many consumers/businesses have moved all those SATA drives out of the computer and into a NAS.
kri55 - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
Can you please post a picture from the back of this motherboard? I am thinking of buying this one and I want to watercool the chipset, so I need to know how the chipset radiator is fixed. If you could measure the distance between the mounting points it would be awesome.HideOut - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
Your prices apparently mean nothing. When you click no them they show much different results when you get to either neweggs or amazons sites.jamawass - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
Does the ASUS Prime X570-Pro have USB 3.1 type A or Type C headers to connect to a case's USB ports?icf80 - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
X570 AORUS ELITE WIFI, on the gigabyte site is says it has Wifi 5 and BT 4.2, but in the review it says it has Intel AX200 Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax wireless interface and BT 5.0. Check https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-EL...mike_bike_kite - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
Can anybody summarise why you'd want an X570 board over one of the older boards ie X470? I know there's better overclocking support but, from all the reports I've read, these new Ryzens are near their max anyway. I know there's PCie4 support but does anyone own such a device? I know it has EEC memory support but why on earth do I need that? Why didn't this review tell us why we should want one of these new boards over the existing boards?I'm considering going all AMD with the 3700X 5700 though my current system (i5-3570K/1060 6GB/8GB RAM) is fairly snappy for what I do (mainly for 2D game development) but I'm just in the mood for a new PC. Smaller, quieter and more powerful would be nice and help justify the cost.
Bateluer - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
The ASRock site lists the Steel Legend as having the ALC1220 chip, not the ALC1200 as noted in the AT table. https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/X570%20Steel%20Legen...enkov - Sunday, August 2, 2020 - link
To confirm from my X570 Steel legend - ALC1220 here. HWINFO64 says Audio Codec Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_1220&SUBSYS_18492223&REV_1001croc - Thursday, July 25, 2019 - link
I find it appalling that no x570 MB has more than 4 DIMM slots, and only dual channel at that. No support for more than 64 GB ram, even on the 'workstation' MB's. For around 700 US I expect better. It should also be considered 'standard equipment' by this time for the M.2's to offer raid support. Really, as a retired professional, I feel raped by these prices and lack of professional features.