The Intel Z590 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Detailed
by Gavin Bonshor on January 19, 2021 10:15 AM ESTZ590 Power Delivery
As we do with all of our chipset overviews, we reached out to all of the motherboard vendors about what power deliveries each board features prior to launch. Many more users, compared to previous years factor in the power delivery and its thermal capabilities into their buying decisions. While the power delivery is fundamentally designed to run its relevant processors at default settings without issue, the idea of including a better specification power delivery allows for users to push processors beyond the default settings, as more voltage through the CPU means more voltage and power is handled by the power delivery.
Over the years, we have reported on manufacturers embellishing claims of its power delivery and marketing them to do things it just cannot operate effectively and efficiently. We have compiled as much information as we are privy to, which we are trusting vendors to provide accurate details of. A question mark (?) denotes something we haven't been informed of, as we don't want to speculate and guess, as motherboard vendors haven't provided us with the necessary details.
As more information filters into us from vendors, as well as in our Z590 reviews, we will endeavor to keep the below table updated as frequently as possible. Note that all the information below has come directly from the manufacturer of each model, or through the physical analysis of the componentry.
| Z590 CPU Power Delivery Comparison | |||||
| Motherboard | Controller | H-Side | L-Side | Chokes | Doubler |
| Biostar Z590 Valkyrie | ISL69269 (10+1) |
ISL99390B (20) |
? | ISL6617A (10) |
|
| Biostar Z590I Valkyrie | ISL69269 (8+1) |
ISL99390 (8) |
? | - | |
| Biostar Racing Z590GTA | ISL69269 (6+1) |
FDMF5062 (12) |
? | ISL6617A (6) |
|
| GIGABYTE Z590 Aorus Xtreme WaterForce | ISL69269 (10+1) |
SiC840 (20) |
? | ISL6617A (10) |
|
| GIGABYTE Z590 Aorus Xtreme | ISL69269 (10+1) |
SiC840 (20) |
? | ISL6617A (10) |
|
| GIGABYTE Z590 Aorus Tachyon | ISL69269 (12+1) |
SiC840 (12) |
? | - | |
| GIGABYTE Z590 Aorus Master | ISL69269 (18+1) |
ISL99390B (18) |
? | ISL6617A (9) |
|
| GIGABYTE Z590 Aorus Ultra | ISL69269 (8+1) |
ISL99390B (16) |
? | ISL6617A (8) |
|
| GIGABYTE Z590 Aorus Pro AX | ISL69269 (12+1) |
ISL99390 (12) |
? | - | |
| GIGABYTE Z590 Aorus Elite | ISL69269 (12+1) |
SiC649 (12) |
? | - | |
| GIGABYTE Z590I Aorus Ultra | ISL69269 (10+1) |
ISL99390 (10) |
? | - | |
| MSI MEG Z590 Godlike | RAA229828 (20+0) |
ISL99390 (20) |
? | - | |
| MSI MEG Z590 Ace | ISL69269 (16+2) |
ISL99390B (16) |
? | ISL6617A (8) |
|
| MSI MEG Z590 Unify | ISL69269 (16+2) |
ISL99390B (16) |
? | ISL6617A (8) |
|
| MSI MEG Z590 Unify-X | ISL69269 (16+2) |
ISL99390B (16) |
? | ISL6617A (8) |
|
| MSI MEG Z590I Unify | ISL69269 (8+1) |
ISL99390 (8) |
? | - | |
| MSI MPG Z590 Gaming Carbon WIFI | ISL69269 (16+1) |
RAA220075 (16) |
? | - | |
| MSI MPG Z590 Gaming Carbon EK X | ISL69269 (16+1) |
RAA220075 (16) |
? | - | |
| MSI MPG Z590 Gaming Force | ISL69269 (16+1) |
RAA220075 (16) |
? | - | |
| MSI MPG Z590 Gaming Edge WIFI | ISL69269 (14+1) |
RAA220075 (14) |
? | - | |
| MSI MPG Z590M Gaming Edge WIFI | ISL69269 (12+1) |
RAA220075 (12) |
? | - | |
| MSI MPG Z590 Gaming Plus | ISL69269 (14+1) |
RAA220075 (14) |
? | - | |
| MSI MAG Z590 Tomahawk WIFI | ISL69269 (14+2) |
AOZ5312UQI (14) |
? | - | |
| MSI MAG Z590 Torpedo | ISL69269 (14+2) |
NCP252160 (14) |
? | - | |
| MSI Z590 Pro WIFI | RT3609BE (12+2) |
AOZ5516QI (12) |
? | - | |
| MSI Z590-A Pro | RT3609BE (12+2) |
AOZ5516QI (12) |
? | - | |
As we get more and more Z590 boards in for review, we can go deeper into the analysis in each individual review over the upcoming months.
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lmcd - Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - link
8 cores is plenty for this generation of memory bandwidth. The problem is that Intel's next gen will have "16" processors where 8 are full cores, while AMD will have a full 16 cores with all that bandwidth. This generation, Intel is competitive but late.rahvin - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
Is this an attempt to be funny?pman6 - Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - link
meh. show me the $80 b560 boards.this is overkill for me.
Geef - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
Why is Intel always behind the game with memory speeds? 3200 is just a basic speed nowadays. Its great if your running CAS 14 chips but not many are. Why haven't they set a speed up to 4000 or 5000? They can keep XMP going just fine but wouldn't it be better to have systems automatically go that fast if they can?Deicidium369 - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
JEDEC tops out at 3200 - the fastest OFFICIAL speed it 3200. I have Gskill DDR4 4133 on my Gigabyte Z390 / i9900Kand JEDEC speeds are the same for AMD and Intel
Duncan Macdonald - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
For most games the 5800x is the sweet spot due to only having one CPU chiplet so no communication between chiplets. The 5900 and 5950 with two chiplets lose on many games due to the cost of inter chiplet communications exceeding the benefits from the extra cores.The 5900 and 5950 are best in programs that can make good use of all the cores (eg some video editing programs). For any game player with a 5900 or 5950, it might well be possible to get higher game performance by limiting Windows to only the first chiplet (using the numproc boot parameter).
Makaveli - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
I agree with you however the 5800X is really overpriced right now. So when you only have to pay abit more for the 5900X its looks like a far better deal. I think once Rocket lake is out we should see a price correction on the 5800X so the time to buy those will be in March.yeeeeman - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
This....this is wasted resources IMO. There was no need to make another platform on 14nm when they have the 10th gen which is just fine. I mean, the 10900k/10700k are great CPUs still, even compared to 5000 Ryzen series, so I don't know...they should've focused the efforts on bringing Alder Lake and its successor platforms forward.Hope Pat will make a bit of order here and make the schedules and ambitions of Intel a bit more daring, cause Bob just...milked it like there is no tomorrow. Refreshes after refreshes and refreshes.
Makaveli - Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - link
That's what happens when you have a finance guy running the company he is just going to keep the wheels turning and not be aggressive. The new guy is an engineer and I believe he will push the pace which is what Intel needs now.Oxford Guy - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
Well, the world really needed a stack of 15 boards from just one motherboard company, too.