Yeah. AMD doesn’t require motherboard makers to build B650 motherboards to the specs required for PCIE 5.0 but the CPU does support it if they build the board to the required spec (electrical trace signal integrity) and enable it in firmware. The main PCIE16X slot is directly controlled to the CPU and not through the chipset.
Last I checked, Ryzen CPUs are still a true SOC with things like PCIE controllers, memory controllers, and standard IO being on the CPU itself rather than the motherboard chipset. The additional PCIE lanes added by the chipset are via a switch and I personally don’t count due to the inherent bottleneck.
IIRC different B650/X670 series chipsets aren’t even using different silicon but instead are double packaged for the higher tier, which is why the X670 chipset has exactly two times the chipset based USB and SATA controllers.
Yeah. AMD doesn’t require motherboard makers to build B650 motherboards to the specs required for PCIE 5.0 but the CPU does support it if they build the board to the required spec (electrical trace signal integrity) and enable it in firmware. The main PCIE16X slot is directly controlled to the CPU and not through the chipset.
Last I checked, Ryzen CPUs are still a true SOC with things like PCIE controllers, memory controllers, and standard IO being on the CPU itself rather than the motherboard chipset. The additional PCIE lanes added by the chipset are via a switch and I personally don’t count due to the inherent bottleneck.
IIRC different B650/X670 series chipsets aren’t even using different silicon but instead are double packaged for the higher tier, which is why the X670 chipset has exactly two times the chipset based USB and SATA controllers.