Continuing on the path of introducing more and more support for old processors (with a new lithography yes) instead of launching the AGESA 1.0.0.5 micro code to give full compatibility to the new Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X CPUs, GIGABYTE will It is considered to be one of the first manufacturers to offer official and complete support for the Ryzen 3 1200 AF and Ryzen 5 1600 AF on the AMD X570 chipset.
A support that arrives 7 months after its launch
Launching AGESA 1.0.0.5 should be a top priority for GIGABYTE, but as they have revealed to us, they are having trouble implementing it on their 400 and 300 series motherboards. Instead of making the most of it all the time. To solve this problem, they provide the X570 chipset (the highest of the range) and expensive the support for the cheapest processor on the market.
The Ryzen 5 1600 AF processor is nothing more than a Ryzen 5 2600 with lower clock frequencies. It has 6 cores and 12 threads that offer similar performance at a lower price and although it is from the Pinnacle Ridge family based on the 12nm Zen + microarchitecture, the AGESA Combo AM4 integrated in the X570 motherboards does not currently have compatibility for this processor.
Compared to the Ryzen 5 1600, there are big differences at the microarchitecture level since the Ryzen 1600 is based on Zen at 14 nm called Summit Ridge and the Ryzen 1600 AF is a new Zen + based architecture named Pinnacle Ridge, which explains that The Ryzen 1600 AF have official support in the X570 chipset since they are more similar to the Ryzen 5 2600 than to the first generation Ryzen 5 1600 that is no longer compatible.
The differences of the Ryzen 3 1200 AF from the Ryzen 3 1200 are exactly the same as the Ryzen 1600 AF with the version without AF, so it receives the same update from 14nm to 12nm with a new Zen + based architecture.
GIGABYTE needs to pay more attention to small details
In the details revealed by GIGABYTE, they are still working to bring AGESA 1.0.0.5 soon, which promises full compatibility with the new AMD Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X processors, performance improvements and memory stability for all platforms.
This processor, which is the YD1600BBM6IAF model, lags behind as far as IPC is concerned, even with processors of a similar price such as the Ryzen 3 3100, which differs by having 2 more cores and 4 threads but they are still processors that it is not common to see them installed on X570 motherboards, since the common user who purchases these processors is thinking of putting it on a motherboard B450 or B350, because it is assumed that you have tighter budgets and are cheaper motherboards than the X570 chipset.
Troubleshooting should be a top priority
In the United States, with the difference in wages and prices in technology with respect to Europe, it is more common to see people who first buy a high-end plate with a cheaper processor to later update it, although with the availability of the 3300X At a price similar to the Ryzen 5 1600 AF in that country, it still seems a bit strange and a bit late news since the Ryzen 5 1600 AF processors have already been on the market since October 11, 2019.
There are many months to start certifying full compatibility with this processor now as X570 motherboards have been seen running this CPU but if they were updated to certain versions of the UEFI they stopped working and had no official support.
Anyway We hope that soon they launch the new AGESA 1.0.0.5 and that they come with all the corrected bugs, like the language support in Spanish, which is a mixture of Italian and something else.
