Do Intel and AMD create motherboard reference designs?

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philb2

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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.
 
philb2 said:
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.
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AMD's review guide for the AM5 X3D chips, state that their performance graphs are based on an AMD reference motherboard.
 
philb2 said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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