AMD Chipsets (DETAILED OVERVIEW)
An Overview of AMD Chipsets
| Chipset | A68H | A88X | A320 | B350 | X370 | X399 | |||
| USB 2.0 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||
| USB 3.0/3.1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 16 | |||
| SATA | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | |||
| Number of PCI Express lanes | 4 (+16 in APU) | 4 (+16 in APU) | 4 (+20 in CPU Ryzen / 10 in APU) | 6 (+20 in CPU Ryzen / 10 in APU) | 8 (+20 in CPU Ryzen / 10 in APU) | 4 (+60 in CPU) | |||
| SATA Express (2x SATA III or 2x PCIe 3.0) | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Multiple graphics cards | No | Yes | No | CrossFire only | Yes | Yes | |||
| Processor overclocking | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
* This is a chipset specification; the connector equipment of a particular motherboard may vary. APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) is a processor with an integrated graphics unit. APUs for the A68H/A88X chipset use only second generation PCI-Express; other processors/chipsets work with the third generation.
What Chipset Should You Choose?
- Office and multimedia (AM1, A68H, A88X, A320) - motherboards for the AM1 socket really shouldn't be used for anything except for office work. If you want an all-purpose home computer or extra multimedia applications, choose one of the A68H, A88X, or A320 chipsets instead.
- Games, video creation, and 3D graphics (B350, X370) - both chipsets fully support overclocking. The X370 chipset offers more USB 3.0 ports, more internal SATA III (6Gb/sec) connectors, and support for NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards (SLI and CrossFire).
- Workstations and servers (X399) - for powerful computing workstations, rendering, professional graphics design, video creation and editing, virtualisation, and for servers in general.
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