Asus: Seven mainboards with B650(E) for Ryzen 7000 spotted

Six mainboards with a B650 chipset and one with a B650E for Ryzen 7000 should be on the Asus plan, as the preliminary and not necessarily final information on the new boards in ATX or Micro-ATX format from the Hardwareluxx.de forum demonstrate. Accordingly, the models are Prime B650-Plus, TUF Gaming B650M-Plus, TUF Gaming B650M-Plus WiFi, TUF Gaming B650-Plus, TUF Gaming B650-Plus WiFi, ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi and ROG Strix B650E- E Gaming WiFi.

Thanks to the B650 chipset, all mid-range models support at least one PCI Express 5.0 for storage use via an M.2 slot for corresponding SSDs, while the ROG Strix B650E-E with should also offer the less stripped-down B650E chipset two PCI-E 5.0 slots, each with 16 lanes for graphics cards.

In addition to three M.2 SSDs with a PCI-E 5.0 connection, the latter can also accommodate an additional SSD via PCI-E 4.0, while the other B650 models apart from the unique PCI-E 5.0 connection only have over have one or two additional M.2 slots with a PCI-E 4.0 connection and graphics cards can only be connected via PCI-E 4.0. There is also talk of four SATA ports.

Asus: Seven mainboards with B650(E) for Ryzen 7000 spotted

Source: Reous @ Hardwareluxx.de

Differences and upcoming details

Noisy Tomshardware.com AMD states that the performance of the B650 and X670 series chipsets will be the same, so the only differences will be PCI-E connectivity and possibly also I/O connectivity, depending on the motherboard manufacturer. Concrete information on the said mainboards as well as other technical data are still missing, but should turn out to be the same as the pricing in October at the latest for the planned release.