pax
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The 5000 gen of apus uses the 4000 gen (zen3) ryzen cores. As the 4000 gen apus use ryzen 3000... so expect the 6000 gen apus to probably be the last apus on am4.
Official AMD Ryzen 5000 Series & 7000 Series Thread
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The 5000 gen of apus uses the 4000 gen (zen3) ryzen cores. As the 4000 gen apus use ryzen 3000... so expect the 6000 gen apus to probably be the last apus on am4.
Shapeshifter
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https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-2021-2022-roadmap-partially-leaks
so it really does look like a planned warhol cpu for 2021, the AM4's last hurrah I suppose. I imagine it's probably going to be like the difference between zen and zen+, a nice bump but nothing like zen+ to zen 2.
so it really does look like a planned warhol cpu for 2021, the AM4's last hurrah I suppose. I imagine it's probably going to be like the difference between zen and zen+, a nice bump but nothing like zen+ to zen 2.
Shapeshifter
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pax
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Awesome time saver for casual ocers/undervolters. Will keep an eye out for it when they have fleshed out all the zen 2 cpus for it. Maybe even get zen 3 support?...
It's not that 300 series boards can't handle Zen 3; it's the fact that all of the microcode required to support all of the AM4 SKUs doesn't fit in a standard 16MB BIOS flash chip. Trying to support Zen 3 on 300-series boards would result in a massive number of RMAs due to users pairing a new CPU with an old stock mobo or an old stock CPU with a mobo flashed to the latest BIOS.
If AMD had mandated 32MB BIOS chips and/or BIOS flashback the situation would be much better.
Sasquach
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Its true to a certain extent.
They'd have to pick and choose which CPU's to support and which to drop.
I had installed a Ryzen 3600 into an A320 mobo when those first came out, and the bios update had removed support for all the CPU's prior to the zen lineup (i forget if they even removed support for Zen1) and reduced the bios UI from fancy to just basic.
Shapeshifter
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/ijh6xt/zen_3_support_is_really_coming_to_am4_now/
Ryzen 4000 support popping up in new bios apparently
Ryzen 4000 support popping up in new bios apparently
Shapeshifter
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pax
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Man they added zen 3 support with only half a meg worth of bios data vs the previous bios that was only supporting zen 2.
Cmon
9.63 megs but they cant add zen 3 to x370? BS
Hapatingjaky
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Referring to how much data can be stored in Bios. It can be an issue because like the current situation, when new CPUs are released there may not be enough room to add bios support/firmware for those CPUs, even though the board can physically support them.
I thought a solution could be to perhaps have several tiers of Bios and you just install the version that supports your CPU, but I suppose that just gets too messy for the average user and opens a can of worms concerning tech support for AMD.
I thought a solution could be to perhaps have several tiers of Bios and you just install the version that supports your CPU, but I suppose that just gets too messy for the average user and opens a can of worms concerning tech support for AMD.