The first pictures of an AMD A620 motherboard featuring in the AM5 family for entry-level Ryzen 7000 PCs have been leaked by Videocardz.
AMD A620 Motherboards Coming To AM5 Platform: Entry-Level Designs For Ryzen 7000 PC Builders
The AMD A620 motherboard pictured is the ASRock A620M-HDV/M.2 which is a very low-cost design with bare minimum I/O capabilities. The motherboard features the AM5 socket and is powered by a single 8-pin connector that provides juice to the 6-Phase VRM delivery which will utilize 50 MOSFETs.
ASRock’s A620 motherboard for the AMD AM5 platform has leaked out. (Image Credits: Videocardz)
The ASRock A620 motherboard comes with just two DDR5 DIMM slots which means up to 64 & 96 GB memory capacities (32 GB / 48 GB modules). For expansion, the motherboard has a single PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 slot and two PCIe Gen 4.0 x1 slots. There’s also a single Hyper M.2 slot that is Gen 4.0 x4 rater for NVMe M.2 SSDs. A single M.2 WIFI slot is also available but you will have to buy the WIFI module separately as the board doesn’t come with one. There’s also another NVMe M.2 slot but it isn’t spec’d as Hyper M.2 which means that it could be Gen 3.0 x4 compliant.
Previous leaks have shown that the AMD A620 motherboard for the AM5 platform will feature 28 Gen 4 lanes, 8 Gen 3 lanes, 2 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, and 6 USB 2.0 ports. There will be no overclock support for the CPU but memory overclocking will be available and these boards will support the EXPO profiles though to what extent remains to be seen. The upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is going to make perfect sense with these boards as it isn’t necessarily designed with overclocking in mind but given its 120W TDP, it makes a perfect choice when paired with a $100 US board like this and provides insane gaming value.
For I/O, the ASRock A620 AM5 motherboard gets an HDMI and DP output plus a single USB Type-C and four Type-A connectors. There’s a single Ethernet LAN port that should offer 1GbE & an audio (3-channel) port. You will also note that the motherboard only has one heatsink and that’s on the AMD A620 PCH itself. The VRMs don’t feature any heatsinks so it is likely that ASRock would aim it at the Ryzen 7000 Non-X and lower TDP SKUs.
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Running a high-end 170W TDP SKU on this board is going to make zero sense unless you want it to be undervolted all the time in which case a Non-X CPU would be a better investment considering they are going to be available at discounted prices very soon in the US and other regions.
In addition to this, Hardwareluxx Forum members managed to find out an ASUS TUF Gaming A620M-PLUS motherboard too a few days ago which features a single PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 slot, two M.2 Gen 4 x4 slots, and two PCIe Gen 3.0 x1 slots.
Overall, this motherboard looks pretty decent for a low-end and entry-level PC design. The pricing should be under $100 US for a design like this. Considering that the B650 offerings are now available at a starting price of $125 US, one would expect AMD to introduce A620 motherboards below $100 US. We have been told that the motherboards are being prepped for launch later this month with retail availability in April.
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