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ASUS Reportedly Working on AMD X590 Mainstream and AMD X599 HEDT Motherboards – ROG Zenith II Extreme In The Making For 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper
ASUS Reportedly Working on AMD X590 Mainstream and AMD X599 HEDT Motherboards – ROG Zenith II Extreme In The Making For 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper-February 2024
Feb 12, 2026 9:12 PM

ASUS has spilled the beans on AMD's X590 mainstream and X599 HEDT platforms by confirming actual products to Videocardz. AMD has already introduced X570 as their mainstream solution for Ryzen processors but it looks like they might have more in the plans for future high core count processors.

ASUS Reportedly Confirms AMD X590 and X599 Platforms For Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper Processors

According to the report, ASUS, one of the top AIB partner of AMD is internally working on a series of motherboards that utilize the unreleased AMD X590 and AMD X599 chipsets. These boards are aimed at both mainstream and high-end desktop platforms and include the following:

ASUS Prime X590-PROASUS ROG STRIX X590-EASUS ZENITH II Extreme

The source suggests that all three motherboards that have been internally confirmed by ASUS may or may not make their way to the market at all. Now it's possible that the X590 series launch could coincide with AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X which is going to be their flagship 16 core chip on the AM4 CPU socket. The 16 core chip was a mystery since it was the only chip missing during the initial 3rd Gen Ryzen announcement but got unveiled a few weeks after at E3 2019 (The PC Gaming Show). AMD's X590 could also make a surprise appearance with a limited number of motherboards when Ryzen 9 3950 launches but that's just speculation. Recent reports also confirmed the X570 and X590 were indeed planned with one offering PCIe Gen 3 support while the other offer PCIe Gen 4 support but the plans were dropped and AMD gave X570 Gen 4 support.

The other series is the X599 which is getting the new ZENITH II Extreme motherboard from ASUS. ASUS has already made two ZENITH motherboards based on the X399 chipset, the ROG ZENITH (1) Extreme and the ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha. Both of these motherboards are some of the best TR4 socketed products that you can buy for Threadripper 1st and 2nd Gen at the moment. The ZENITH II Extreme, which is supposedly based on the X599 chipset, would offer support for AMD's 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper processors.

AMD CPU Roadmap (2017-2022)

Year202420232021-202220212020201920182017
ArchitectureZen (4) / Zen (5)Zen (4) / Zen (4C)Zen (4) / Zen 3 (+)Zen (3) / Zen 3 (+)Zen (3) / Zen 2Zen (2) / Zen+Zen (1) / Zen+Zen (1)
Process Node5nm / 3nm?5nm5nm / 6nm7nm7nm7nm14nm / 12nm14nm
ServerEPYC TurinEPYC BergamoEPYC 'Genoa'EPYC 'Milan'EPYC 'Rome'EPYC 'Rome'EPYC 'Naples'EPYC 'Naples'
Max Server Cores / Threads256/512128/25696/19264/12864/12864/12832/6432/64
High End DesktopRyzen Threadripper 8000 SeriesRyzen Threadripper 7000 SeriesRyzen Threadripper 6000 Series (TBD)Ryzen Threadripper 5000 Series (Chagall)Ryzen Threadripper 3000 Series (Castle Peak)Ryzen Threadripper 3000 Series (Castle Peak)Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Series (Coflax)Ryzen Threadripper 1000 Series (White Haven)
Ryzen FamilyRyzen 8000 SeriesRyzen 7000 SeriesRyzen 6000 SeriesRyzen 5000 SeriesRyzen 4000/5000 SeriesRyzen 3000 SeriesRyzen 2000 SeriesRyzen 1000 Series
Max HEDT Cores / ThreadsTBDTBDTBD64/12864/12864/12832/6416/32
Mainstream DesktopRyzen 8000 Series (Granite Ridge)TBDRyzen 7000 Series (Raphael)Ryzen 5000 Series (Vermeer-X)Ryzen 5000 Series (Vermeer)Ryzen 3000 Series (Matisse)Ryzen 2000 Series (Pinnacle Ridge)Ryzen 1000 Series (Summit Ridge)
Max Mainstream Cores / ThreadsTBDTBD16/3216/3216/3216/328/168/16
Budget APURyzen 8000 (Strix Point Zen 5)Ryzen 7000 Series (Phoenix Zen 4)Ryzen 6000 Series (Rembrandt Zen 3+)Ryzen 5000 Series (Cezanne Zen 3)Ryzen 4000 Series (Renoir Zen 2)Ryzen 3000 Series (Picasso Zen+)Ryzen 2000 Series (Raven Ridge)N/A

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