At the end of last month, many motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, presented their new products based on the AMD X2019 chipset at Computex 570. However, the cost of these new products has not been announced. Now, with the approaching release date of new motherboards, more and more new details about their cost are becoming clear, and these details are not encouraging at all.
TechPowerUp has received from a trusted source in Taiwan a price list with recommended US dollar prices for some upcoming ASUS X570-based motherboards. The most affordable model, ASUS Prime X570-P, is estimated by the manufacturer at $160. The TUF Gaming X570-Plus, which is close to it in terms of characteristics, is already priced at $170, and its Wi-Fi 6 version is $185. In general, it's not all that bad.
However, the next Prime X570-Pro model will cost a whopping $250, while its predecessor, the Prime X470-Pro, is estimated at only $150. It turns out that the price increased by 66%. At the same time, these motherboards are positioned as mid-range solutions.
For the upper segment, ASUS has the ROG Strix and ROG Crosshair series. The most affordable board here is the ROG Strix X570-F at $300, followed by the ROG Strix X570-E at $330. In turn, the ROG Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard is already priced at $360, which is again $100 more than the price of its predecessor, the ROG Crosshair VII Hero. The ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi version with Wi-Fi 802.11ax support will cost $380.
Finally, the most expensive ASUS motherboard based on the AMD X570 chipset will be the flagship ROG Crosshair VIII Formula. It is valued at $700. Note that some ASUS Rampage Extreme boards for Intel HEDT processors cost about the same. And this is a slightly different class of systems.
The reason for such not the most democratic price tags is, of course, the desire to make money on advanced products. In particular, the X570 platform is the first in the consumer segment to offer PCI Express 4.0 support. In addition, AMD's X570 chipset turned out to be much more complex than previous solutions developed by ASMedia. Because of this, it was necessary to significantly rework and complicate the design of each of the motherboards, as well as the creation of active cooling systems for chipsets.
And in the end, I would like to note that against the background of this news, the price of the AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors cannot but rejoice. She remained the same as her predecessors. For example, the Ryzen 7 3700X will cost the same $329 as the Ryzen 7 2700X at launch. Recall that the new AMD processors, and with them new motherboards, should go on sale as early as July 7th.
Source: 3dnews.ru