AMD X470 and X370 motherboards have received new BIOS updates from a number of manufacturers to support the upcoming generation of AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs. Those chips aren't set to arrive until the middle of this year, but it looks like the top-tier motherboards from the first and second-generation Ryzen CPUs can now add official support for the new gen. chips to their official feature lists.
The first manufacturers to begin this roll out of new BIOS with added Ryzen 3000 support are ASUS, MSI, and Biostar, but most other manufacturers are expected to follow suit in short order. The new AGESA 0070 and AGESA 0072 updates are exclusively compatible with the X470 and X370 boards for now, although we do expect to see BIOS updates for B450 motherboards in the near future too. B350 is a little more uncertain, as though AMD suggested those boards would be compatible with all future AM4 CPUs released until 2020, there are some concerns that the higher power requirements of Ryzen 3000 chips might not be compatible with the VRMs on those earlier boards, especially at the entry level.
The BIOS updates going out could suggest that engineering samples of the new Ryzen CPUs are now with board partners, which would indicate that all is well with the new chips and we are well on our way to hitting retail around the planned summer release window.
Ryzen 3000 CPUs will shrink the processor node to 7nm and will introduce increased instructions per clock, greater core numbers, and increased clock speeds, potentially making them the most powerful CPUs ever released by AMD or otherwise. WIth Intel not expected to debut a new architecture until at the earliest Q3-Q4 2019, AMD could have a strong lead on the blue team for the first time in a decade or more.
