AMD Zen 6 “Ryzen” CPU Support Officially Confirmed By ASUS For Its OC-Ready B850 Motherboard
ASUS has become the first motherboard vendor to confirm support for AMD’s next-gen Zen 6 “Ryzen” CPU on its B850M OC motherboards.
ASUS Becomes First Motherboard Maker To Confirm AMD Zen 6 “Ryzen” CPU Support On Its AM5 “B850M” Motherboard
ASUS recently announced its B850M AYW OC motherboard, a mainstream mATX offering with impressive overclocking capabilities. The motherboard vendor has now launched the specific motherboard for a listed price of 1349 RMB or $190 US, making it by far the cheapest B850M OC design with an external BCLK generator and support for over 10,000 MT/s DDR5 memory.
Now, ASUS has become the first motherboard vendor to officially confirm that this specific board, the B850M AYW OC, features support for AMD’s next-gen Ryzen CPUs based on the Zen 6 architecture. It’s not something unexpected, but ASUS confirming Zen 6 support this early when all other board vendors use the term “future CPU support” is definitely interesting.
The motherboard comes with a larger 64 MB BIOS that is ready for future updates that will enable support for new Ryzen CPUs from AMD. But we know from earlier reports that almost all AM5 series motherboards should carry support for next-gen CPUs, making it the third generation of Zen CPUs supported on the socket. MSI had also recently confirmed support for “Future Ryzen” CPUs on its AM5 800-series motherboards.
Besides ASUS & MSI, ASRock has also apparently confirmed Zen 6 “Ryzen” CPU support on its B850 series motherboards. So it looks like AMD has eased up on its motherboard partners for sharing info regarding Zen 6 CPU support. AMD has already, reportedly, distributed next-gen CPU samples to its partners, so these motherboard makers are already evaluating the capabilities of these chips to better prepare themselves when the CPUs do actually launch next year.
AMD’s Ryzen “Zen 6” CPUs are expected to launch next year, with an unveiling expected around Computex 2025 or mid of 2025 and a hard launch a few months later.
AMD will likely be launching its next-gen CPUs first, followed by Intel’s next-gen desktop CPUs, Nova Lake. AMD is expected to offer up to 24 cores on its mainstream desktop lineup, while Intel is going to offer up to 52 cores, so the next-gen desktop landscape is going to be super interesting for PC builders.
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