AMD’s X570 chipset to launch at Computex 2019 with PCIe 4.0 support

AMD’s Ryzen 3000 series processors will no doubt be one of the biggest consumer hardware releases in 2019, bringing AMD’s Zen 2 processor cores to the masses with 7nm lithography.   

With a new series of processors will come a new selection of motherboards, with X570 succeeding X470. It is worth noting that both 400-series and 300-series AMD motherboards will be updated to support Ryzen 3000 series CPUs, but only new 500 series boards are guaranteed support out of the box and will enable the processor’s full feature set. 

According to slides from Gamer.com.tw, which our sources confirm to be legitimate at the time of writing, AMD’s X570 chipset will be launched at Computex, with Ryzen 3rd Generation “Matisse” processors being announced within a similar timeframe. 

These slides also state that Matisse will be an “all PCIe Gen4 Solution”, which suggests that X570 will support PCIe 4.0, making it the first series of consumer motherboards to support PCIe 4.0. 

Taking these thoughts to their logical conclusion, we can see that Matisse takes a lot more from ROME than just their 7nm Zen 2 core design, adding PCIe 4.0 support into the mix, just like AMD’s EPYC 2 processors. The timeframe market in this slide also suggests a mid-2019 release timeframe for Ryzen 3000 series processors. This makes sense given AMD’s intention to release EPYC 2nd Generation processors first.