According to the latest reports details have emerged about the AM4 chipsets for the upcoming AMD Zen CPUs.
AMD AM4 And SFF Chipsets
According to the website pcgamesn.com, the supporting chipsets for AMD's Zen CPUs will provide impressive overclocking support. For micro machine builds AMD will made available purpose-designed SFF chipsets.
The AM4 chipset that is set to work with all new AMD machines is code-named Promontory. The chipset has been released already in OEM form for manufacturers, like Lenovo and HP. For the normal consumer-oriented market, the AM4 chipset will not be available until the new year.
According to Planet3DNow, aside of AM4, X370, A320 and B350 chipsets that have already been mentioned, AMD will also release dedicated X300, B300 and A300 chipsets. They are specifically created for motherboards with small form factor.
AMD will create a specific line of SFF boards/chipsets, including a high-end X300 variant that is expected to contain all the features from the full ATX-scale X370 chipset,
The High-End AMD X370 Chipset
According to Guru3D, the X370 will be most high-end chipset in the line. The X in its name stands for Extreme.
The X370 chipset will support and SLI and Multi-GPU rendering Crossfire. It will feature two full x16 PCI Express slots (Gen 3.0). The high-end AMD chipset for Zen CPUs will also support overclocking.
The AMD B350 Chipset
The B in the naming of AMD B350 stands for Business. This is a mainstream more generalized chipset offering less PCI-Express lanes available and less tweaking options but yet full performance.
The leaked specs for B350 suggest the presence of 8x Gen 3 PCI-Express lanes, and additional 6 Gen 2 lanes added through the chipset. A wide variety of USB connectivity will be available. Motherboards based on the B350 chipset will offer 2 channel DDR4 memory likely working up to 2400 MHz.
The SSF/Budget AMD A320 Chipset
The A300 and A320 series cater to budget, value and small form factor products. These chipsets will provide 4 PCI-e Gen 2 lanes. A300 will be the chipset especially designed for SSF computers.
