AMD Reaffirms AM5 Socket Support Beyond 2025; Check Details
Dec. 21, 2023The news comes from a recentinterviewheld byOverclocker’s UKwith David McAfee, the Corporate Vice President and general manager of AMD’s Client Computing group. Several questions were answered related to the PC hardware industry, including discussions on how massive the AI industry has become.
The AMD spokesperson answered, “It absolutely still stands!“. Then, he talked about how successfulAMD Ryzenprocessors are in the PC components market. AMD attributes this success to theoverall longevity & supportprovided to the previous-genAM4motherboard platform.
The rep also said that AMD knows “the impact of moving to a new socket.” The AMD team will have a detailed plan for a new motherboard socket beyond AM5, which will be “really well thought-out.”
Great News for AMD AM5 Motherboard Users
The latestRyzen 7000 processors(including the Ryzen 7 7800X3D & other3D V-Cache CPUs) can be installed on AM5 socket motherboards. Currently, AMD’s lineup that uses AM5 sockets consists of B650, X670, and A620 desktop motherboards. Several of them are present in some of thebest motherboards.
Basically, any desktop PC user with an AM5 socket motherboard (B650/X670/A620) does not have to worry about purchasing another motherboard.
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