Although sketchy, the first test of a motherboard with A620 chipset is the occasion of several good news.
Announced just a few days ago and marketed without the stride – but not yet in France – the AMD A620 chipset could boost sales of AM5 platforms, if the performance is not too much behind.
Compatible Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Precisely, this seems to be the case according to the first test recently published on YouTube by Minteger, the results of which were relayed on the site of our colleagues from Videocardz.
To achieve its ends, Minteger used the latest AMD processor, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, its 8 cores and 104MB combined cache. It was paired with an MSI X670-P motherboard equipped with an X670 chipset as well as a Gigabyte A620M Gaming X with its A620 chipset.
In either case, DDR5-6000 was used since the A620 – like other AM5 chipsets – supports the EXPO system. More surprisingly, on the A620, the processor was cooled by a cooler while an AiO was used on the X670.
The A620 less efficient by just 5%
A test that first confirms the potential of the A620 chipset. Rather entry-level oriented, it is intended for processors with a maximum TDP of 65 watts. However, the 7800X3D and its 120 watts are perfectly functional provided that the motherboard is strong enough.
Other good news, if it does not allow to go as far as the X670 on the boost frequency side of the processors, the A620 is doing quite well and the 7800X3D still reached 4.4 to 4.6 GHz on this platform against 4.8 to 4.9 GHz on the X670. Inevitably, this still has an impact on performance, but an impact that we will qualify as minor.
On Cinebench R23, it is thus a question of going from 18,143 to 17,330 points on the multi-thread test and from 1,805 to 1,782 points on the single-thread. On all the synthetic tests, we are talking about a drop in performance of around 5% and barely 3% on video games. This should largely reassure those who were worried about the behavior of the A620 motherboards.
Not yet available in France, these motherboards should be billed around 100 to 120 euros, but ignore the support for PCI Express Gen 5 or CPU overclocking functions… although some manufacturers seem to have taken a few freedoms at this level.
Source : Videocardz
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