Do Intel and AMD create motherboard reference designs?

[philb2]

Looking at the current generation of AMD X670E motherboards, they all seem to have a lot in common. Is this an accident, or does AMD (and Intel?) create reference designs, the way that NVidia and AMD do for graphics cards.

 

[chameleoneel]

Looking at the current generation of AMD X670E motherboards, they all seem to have a lot in common. Is this an accident, or does AMD (and Intel?) create reference designs, the way that NVidia and AMD do for graphics cards.

AMD's review guide for the AM5 X3D chips, state that their performance graphs are based on an AMD reference motherboard.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

Looking at the current generation of AMD X670E motherboards, they all seem to have a lot in common. Is this an accident, or does AMD (and Intel?) create reference designs, the way that NVidia and AMD do for graphics cards.

if you're talking about layouts, x670E has a pretty strict minimum feature set required. manufactures are allowed to exceed those requirements or adjust a few things like IO/network adapters, etc. so there's not a big variance between options from the different manufactures. x670 and b650 the manufactures are allowed to do a lot more with them besides the required AMD minimum spec PCIE slot and M.2 coming from the cpu.

 

[johnnysd]

Looking at the current generation of AMD X670E motherboards, they all seem to have a lot in common. Is this an accident, or does AMD (and Intel?) create reference designs, the way that NVidia and AMD do for graphics cards.

Short answer is yes, sometimes more than one.

 

[bigdogchris]

Intel used to create their own motherboards, but they were more business/entry level and not really something for enthusiast. They were cheap and reliable boards for what their market was though, it was disappointing when they closed it down.