AMD’s Ryzen 5 1600 AF CPU is a strange one. Although it bears the ‘1600’ name, it’s not the same chip at all, and is in fact faster than the original Ryzen 5 1600. Because of this, it has remained a popular budget option in lieu of purchasing one of the best gaming CPUs. And now it looks like its motherboard compatibility will extend into at least some of the X570 range. Gigabyte Japan (via Tom’s Hardware) tweeted that, regarding the Ryzen 5 1600 AF and X570 motherboards, we can be “assured that our AM4 motherboard supports it properly” (text translated from Twitter). For those who know the background of the 1600 AF, this probably won’t come as a surprise, but naming conventions don’t make things easy for us. The Ryzen 5 1600 AF, for those who aren’t aware, is made using the 12nm process of Zen+ rather than the 14nm process of Zen. In many ways this makes that 1600 AF more of a ‘Ryzen 5 2600 lite’ than a Ryzen 5 1600, which is why Gigabyte says it will run on its X570 boards.
Syndicated from here: At least some X570 motherboards will still support AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF CPUs
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