Good day Everyone,
I am hoping to get some guidance before making a purchase on a new motherboard.
Currently on am5 my motherboard spilt the pcie gen 5 slot to by 8 if I install two gpus.
What I want to know is if in theory amd builds in more pcie lanes in zen 6 CPU. If my motherboard will still behave in same manner or will it utilise the potentially new pcie lanes in a zen 6 cpu to give me full pcie gen 5 x16 on both my gpus.
You would need a new MB to use any new extra lanes and features. You cannot change how a board is physically wired by putting a new CPU in with more lanes.
As long as zen 6 is on AM5, very unlikely. I don’t know if the pinout of the socket is published, but it’s very unlikely even possible to add lanes without also adding more pins and thus moving to a new socket.
The only thing I could see happening is a new chipset that links using pcie5 x4 instead of the current pcie4 x4 but even that would require a new board with a new chipset.
