Which to choose?

[Suyash Kerkar]

B550 or X570 which should I go for? For Ryzen 4000 series and just for gaming. Or there's going to launch new chipset by first half of 2021?

[emosun]

if a b550 and x570 are interchangeable to you then get the cheapest

[Shimejii]

Ryzen 4000 chips should be out in November unless more delays happen. Id go with b550 since your just gaming, even B450 would be fine.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

16 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Ryzen 4000 chips should be out in November unless more delays happen. Id go with b550 since your just gaming, even B450 would be fine.

I agree, but you will want to wait to buy the board if you are going to do a b450, as the manufacturer has the option to do a 4000 series bios.

[lmeneses]

if you dont know why you need an x570, get a b550

[Suyash Kerkar]

What features a X570 over B550?

[Moonzy]

higher bandwidth to the chipset from the CPU, so you can get more IO, but that depends on the motherboard vendor to implement

[bellabichon]

That's going to largely depend on which specific X570 and B550 boards you're comparing, but the two big hardware advantages that X570 has over B550 are PCIe Gen 4 support, and higher USB bandwidth. PCIe Gen 4 means faster link between your CPU and devices such as NVMe SSDs, graphics cards, and PCIe networking cards. Higher USB bandwidth means faster transfer speeds between your PC and external storage media. 

 

If you ask me, B550 is going to cover basically all the needs of the average user. But, if you're looking for the best of the best on AMD right now, X570 is where it'll be.