AMD releases A620 chipset details for Ryzen 7000 processors

AMD releases details about its A620 chipset for the AM5 platform. Manufacturers already announced motherboards with this chipset last week. AMD did not release any information about the A620 at the time, so the concrete specifications were not yet known.

AMD reports in a set of slides that the A620 chipset is connected to the CPU with four PCIe 4.0 lanes, also writes TechPowerUp. The chipset does not support PCIe 5.0 for video cards or SSDs, nor for the PCIe 5.0 lanes integrated into the Ryzen 7000 CPUs. Furthermore, the chipset supports up to two USB ports with transfer speeds of 10Gbit/s, two USB ports of 5Gbit/s, six USB 2.0 connections and four SATA connectors.

It is not possible to overclock the CPU on A620 motherboards, although the speed of DDR5 memory can be increased. The chipset supports EXPO, AMD’s XMP counterpart with overclocking profiles for memory. Officially, the A620 chipset supports up to DDR5-6000 memory.

A slide from AMD also talks about possible limited support for Ryzen 7000 CPUs with TDPs of more than 65W. AMD writes that they do work, but only if the motherboard has a BIOS with a specific Agesa version. Also, multithreaded performance could be slightly limited on A620 motherboards, given the generally lower VRM power limits of motherboards with this chipset. However, the company expects these limits to have “minimal impact on game performance.”

Last week, several manufacturers announced A620 motherboards. These are relatively limited motherboards compared to B650 or X670 models. Only ASUS reported euro prices at the time; the cheapest model from that company costs 139 euros. However, AMD states in its slides that A620 motherboards will also be available from $85.