Gigabyte has introduced its latest X870E Aorus Master motherboard, designed for Ryzen 9000 processors and the Socket AM5 platform. This model ranks second in the company’s AMD 800-series lineup, just below the upcoming flagship, X870E Aorus Xtreme.
The X870E Aorus Master motherboard features an 8-layer PCB and a 20-phase VRM power system (16+2+2), with each phase supporting up to 110A. The motherboard is powered by dual 8-pin EPS connectors, and the VRM, along with the top M.2 PCIe 5.0 slot for NVMe storage, is cooled by large aluminum heatsinks.
The motherboard supports up to 192 GB of DDR5 RAM, clocked at over 8000 MT/s, and includes three M.2 PCIe 5.0 slots for NVMe drives. Two of these slots are directly connected to AMD Raphael or Granite Ridge processors, while the third uses lanes from the PCI Express 5.0 x16 slot. A fourth M.2 slot operates on PCIe 4.0, paired with the PCI Express 4.0 x16 slot. Additionally, the board offers four SATA III ports (6 Gbps).
Connectivity features include two USB4 ports (each Type-C at 40 Gbps), four USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (10 Gbps), four USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports (5 Gbps), two front USB 3.2 ports (5 Gbps), and one front USB-C port (20 Gbps). For wired networking, the board uses a 5-gigabit Realtek RTL8251B controller, while wireless connectivity is handled by the Qualcomm QCNCM865 controller, which supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3. The motherboard is also equipped with a Realtek ALC1220 audio codec.
The price of the X870E Aorus Master motherboard has not yet been announced.
