The AMD X570 Motherboard Overview: Over 35+ Motherboards Analyzed

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• PeachNCream - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link

  Pretty much this. Modern games on DX12 won't see any benefit unless the game developer bakes in support (which they appear uninterested in doing for cost reasons) and older games run very well on a single modern GPU. AMD and NV are hardly acknowledging SLI these days either and nowhere but at the top end so there is even less compulsion for developers to bother with supporting it. All in all, you're better off not worrying about SLI unless the industry changes direction significantly in the next few years.

• ajlueke - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link

  The real question however, is does all this power delivery actually have any practical benefits? If I drop a 3000 series CPU in an X570 board vs X470, can I achieve any additional performance? And what is the power consumption differences in the respective chipsets? That is the type of info I would like to see.

• PeachNCream - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link

  It's a marketng differentiator only as motherboard manufacturers all use the same core components and are quick to emulate one another with similar features. Through branding and obscure features that do not significantly impact computer operation, they search for something they can offer that may encourage you to make a purchase in a very, very crowded field of offerings.

• lopri - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link

  Solid power delivery for high-performance CPUs is perhaps the farthest thing from obscure marketing features. OEMs do play with marketing BS for differentiation, but the underlying power delivery system is extremely important and can impact everyday operation for these multi-core CPUs.

• PeachNCream - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

  At long as it meets AMD specifications, no it won't. If it doesn't meet specifications, then it's a bad design. There's no reason to tout being mediocre or a hair or two above mediocre unless you're running out of unique bullet points for the backside of the box that nobody bothers to read anyway.

• Death666Angel - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link

  Stock performance will be the same across the board unless the manufacturer royally screwed up and the power delivery has to throttle due to temperatures (which there are some cases of with super cheap motherboards and 8 cores). Doing OC (and PBO is already OC) is where things start to change. More / better phases means less heat output and better voltages (ripple). This can potentially give you better clocks. But most of this is only useful when you start OCing on water or sub zero systems. Air cooled overclocking will hardly benefit at all. And regarding power consumption you can go into a lot of detail. Sometimes more power phases simply destroys efficiency, when they are all fired up all the time. Sometimes more power phases are smartly managed and load balanced to be kept at their optimal efficiency. It really depends on the implementation.

• Peter2k - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

  If you leave everything at stock, then there is no real reason to upgrade
  Most people would think keeping the socket backwards compatible as an upside
  
  In a desktop the only real reason why we think about power draw going up from 5w to 11w is because manufactures like to keep the cooling block small, and those need a fan
  Chipset fans bring back memories out of terrible noisy days
  Also I remember chipset coolers to be a bit bigger in the past, I'm sure if you're just trying to provide food cooling, without trying to hit that gamer look, then you can cool that chipset without active fan
  
  If you want to try your hand at OC'ing you should probably want the better power delivery
  
  And there is no telling if the older boards will also run fine with higher memory speeds
  Guessing they would, at least until the magical 3600, that's not that outlandish high
  And how much that affects performance this time around still has to be tested
  
  Short story
  You have a Ryzen already, just make it a drop in replacement
  No need to throw out the board

• Peter2k - Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - link

  Any one that would argue about the electricity costs going up (I've encountered those) should also not that all that shiny bling probably draws more watts then the 6w or so difference between last gen and this gen

• pavag - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link

  I expected benchmarks.

• sorten - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link

  You expected benchmarks on 35+ boards that were released two days ago, and many of which aren't even available at retail?