X570 Chipset compatibility

[Manu L]

Hey everyone, thanks for stopping by, I have some questions about compatibility between my current CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 and a motherboard I plan to upgrade to: Asus Tuf X570-PLUS WIFI

 

My plan is to buy this motherboard because the X570 chipset supports Zen+ to Zen 3 CPUs and I plan to upgrade to a Ryzen 5xxx in the future.

 

So I was about to buy the motherboard when I read in the manual that the CPUs supported were:

• 3rd generation, 2d generation processors (5xxx and 3xxx as I understand it)
• 2nd and 1st generation Generation with Radeon™ Vega Graphics Processors

wich means Im not entirely sure the motherboard would be compatible? i'm not entirely sure where the "zen+" architecture would fall, because this part in the MOBO's manual makes it seem like it would only take CPUs with integrated graphics?

 

I checked with PCpartpicker System Builder and it didn't show any compatibility issues.

 

TL;DR: Have a Ryzen 5 2600, want to upgrade my MOBO to an Asus Tuf X570-PLUS WIFI; not entirelly sure if they are compatible.

 

 

Thanks for the answers!

 

[WhitetailAni]

2 minutes ago, Manu L said:

 

• 3rd generation, 2d generation processors (5xxx and 3xxx as I understand it)
• 2nd and 1st generation Generation with Radeon™ Vega Graphics Processors

 

Nope, that's 2xxx and 3xxx.

5th generation is 5xxx.

 

You're fine here.

[StDragon]

Yes, as of BIOS rev 0704 

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/All-series/TUF-GAMING-X570-PLUS-WI-FI/HelpDesk_CPU/

[Manu L]

Thanks for the answers, much appreciated!

[Chris Pratt]

No, Zen 3 is 4th gen. Zen 2 is third gen, Zen+ is second gen, and Zen is first gen.

 

They're calling out the APUs separately because the numbering is weird. 3000 series APUs are Zen+ (as opposed to 3000 series CPUs, which are Zen 2). Same for 2000 series (APUs are Zen, CPUs are Zen+).

 

X570 basically supports every Ryzen processor. Zen 3 support will likely require a BIOS update, unless it's a new board off the line with the latest revision already applied.

 

[Lurick]

2 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

Nope, that's 2xxx and 3xxx.

5th generation is 5xxx.

 

You're fine here.

No, that's not right at all.

There was no 4000 desktop CPUs, they were laptop only.

Zen (1000) - Gen 1

Zen+ (2000) - Gen "2"

Zen2 (3000) - Gen 3

Zen3 (5000) - Gen 4

 

Edit:

No readily available/official 4000 series desktop CPUs aside from OEM ones and possibly third party sellers or (as recently featured in LTT) a few shops that manage to sell them as bundles with motherboards and RAM.

[Chris Pratt]

1 hour ago, Lurick said:

No, that's not right at all.

There was no 4000 desktop CPUs, they were laptop only.

Zen (1000) - Gen 1

Zen+ (2000) - Gen "2"

Zen2 (3000) - Gen 3

Zen3 (5000) - Gen 4

Technically, there were 4000 series desktop CPUs, but they were OEM only. That's a large part of the reason AMD leap frogged to 5000.

[Lurick]

Just now, Chris Pratt said:

Technically, there were 4000 series desktop CPUs, but they were OEM only. That's a large part of the reason AMD leap frogged to 5000.

Interesting, I thought they were laptop only.

[CT854]

8 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Interesting, I thought they were laptop only.

There are mobile APUs under the 4000 Series, but yesterday's LTT video did go into the (sorta) OEM-exclusive desktop 4000 Series APUs.

[Lurick]

10 minutes ago, CT854 said:

There are mobile APUs under the 4000 Series, but yesterday's LTT video did go into the (sorta) OEM-exclusive desktop 4000 Series APUs.

Ah, completely forgot about that, yah