Earlier motherboards came with integrated graphics, but that has long since been abandoned. We have compiled a list of the best motherboards with integrated graphics that you can still get your hands on.
ASRock Releases BETA BIOS Support For AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs on X370, B350 & A320 Motherboards Dec 23, 2020 00:05 EST
ASRock has released BETA BIOS support AMD Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs on its X370, B350 & A320 line of motherboards. The BIOS for each respective AMD 300-series chipset motherboard are now available to download over at HKEPC if you want to run your brand new Vermeer chip on an older motherboard.
AMD Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs Now Supported By ASRock s X370, B350 & A320 Motherboards Through BETA BIOS
According to HKEPC, ASRock has provided them BETA BIOS for a total of 16 X370, B350 and A320 motherboards. These motherboards date all the way back to 2017 when the first AMD Ryzen CPUs were launched so they are quite old but there are plenty of users who still own these boards and are running either 1st or 2nd Gen Ryzen CPUs on them. The site reports that there are no issues in terms of AMD Ryzen 5000 CPU support but full stability for the chips is not guaranteed.
Dec 21, 2020 23:31 EST
In their generational performance review, Golem.de has showcased that the Zen 3 architecture for AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs achieves a massive 89% performance improvement over the original Zen architecture. A gain of this magnitude has not been seen for over a decade yet it took AMD just four years to offer nearly twice the performance of its first-gen Zen cores.
AMD Zen 3 Does The Impossible, Generational Performance Results Show Nearly Twice The Performance of The Original Zen Core In Gaming & Apps
Back before Zen came to market, the industry was accustomed to the 5-10% gen-over-gen gains that Intel was delivering. Sandy Bridge being the last major performance jump from Intel while Haswell and Skylake pushed the envelope further but not in a disruptive way like Zen has done. Putting aside Zen+ which was more of an efficiency-focused architecture, each Zen core delivered an impeccable gain in IPC.
Dec 18, 2020 02:06 EST
MSI has just provided us with the latest screenshots of their X570 motherboards supporting AMD Smart Access Memory on Ryzen 3000 Matisse and Ryzen 4000G Renoir CPUs with NVIDIA s RTX 30 series graphics cards.
MSI Confirms AMD Smart Access Memory Support on Ryzen 3000 Matisse & Ryzen 4000G Renoir CPUs, Spotted Running With NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs
We have already seen the Resizable-Bar feature or as SAM, as AMD likes to call it, enabled for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs on the Intel Z490 platform. We have also seen ASUS adding support for Smart Access Memory for 1st Gen Ryzen CPUs. But it looks like specific board makers, including MSI, will be offering even wider support for SAM on Ryzen 3000 and Ryzen 4000G CPUs.
Dec 16, 2020 19:14 EST
ASUS seems to have enabled AMD Smart Access Memory on the first generation Ryzen CPUs on a B450 motherboard as one user on Reddit managed to get the feature running on his PC. The user who goes by Merich98, posted his findings in the AMD subreddit and shared not only that the tech works with his motherboard and CPU but also posted some performance numbers.
AMD s Smart Access Memory Enabled on First Gen Ryzen Desktop CPUs & ASUS B450 Motherboard, Mixed Results
AMD s Smart Access Memory or resizable-BAR (Base Address Register) feature helps CPU access the full memory buffer that s available on modern GPUs. AMD is the first to offer support for this feature on its Ryzen 5000 and 500-series motherboards but board manufacturers have recently extended support (unofficially) on AMD s 400-series and also Intel s 400-series motherboards. The platforms running AMD Ryzen 5000 and Intel 10th Gen CPUs are seeing performance jumps that average around 10-15%.