AMD at the end of September debuted the Ryzen 7000 series processors, shortly after the sale, AMD seems to realize that the debut price might be set high, so in November began a major price reduction, with the flagship model R9 7950X from 5499 yuan down to 3999 yuan.
According to the latest news, AMD also plans to reduce the price of motherboards, AMD partner manufacturers may push a new batch of motherboards, cutting PCIe 5.0 and other “unnecessary” features.
The newsmaker harukaze5719 said that AMD and its partner manufacturers plan to launch a new motherboard to support the core functions and remove PCIe 5.0 and other elements to achieve higher cost performance.
The current PCIe 4.016 interface for graphics cards has not yet become a bottleneck for high-performance graphics cards, Nvidia’s RTX 4090, 4080 and other graphics cards directly do not support PCIe 5.0 connection, so some positioning is not so high motherboard equipped with PCIe 5.016 interface seems a bit wasteful. In addition, cutting out the PCIe 5.0 M.2 interface won’t have much of an impact, and it will take some time for high-end PCIe 5.0 SSDs to become popular.
If the news is accurate, AMD’s partners may start to launch some “minus” AM5 motherboards next year.
