ASUS ROG Flow X13 RTX 3050 Ti
13.40", AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS, 32 GB, 1000 GB, CH
Question about ASUS ROG Flow X13 RTX 3050 Ti
USB 4 upgrade with chipset driver (& BIOS update): Apparently AMD promised that with the Ryzen 6000 series USB 4.0 is supported on the CPU side. However, most Nobebooks with these CPUs specify USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports. Since June there is a chipset driver update from AMD (4.06.10.651) which is supposed to enable full 40Gb/s in the USB 4.0 standard. I have found a page from someone who has successfully tested this on an Asus ZenBook 13 S OLED: https://www.pcworld.com/article/703578/usb4-support-amd-ryzen-6000-laptop.html Has anyone who has this cool ROG notebook with Ryzen 6000 CPU already flashed and upgraded with the new driver? There are several BIOS and chipset updates on the Asus site, unfortunately it is not visible which upgrades are included. Or maybe the digitec team knows more? The upgrade to USB 4.0 would upgrade quite a few notebooks considerably. By the way, newer notebooks with the Ryzen 6000 CPU are already officially released with USB 4.0 support, such as the Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1.
I have the 2021 Flow X13 Supernova version with 3080 XGM. I'm hesitant to upgrade to Windows 11, but do you know if USB 4 is possible with this laptop/XGM hub?
It appears that a Beta BIOS enabling USB4 is available to install at your own risk: https://www.asus.com/support...
In practice all laptop implementations will be USB4 Gen 3, 40GBps. Windows 11 requires it, and the AMD solution supports it.
When AMD provides the new chipset drivers for a specific notebook, USB 4 is also activated. They are then called something like "AMD USB 4 CM Driver". However, in contrast to Thunderbolt 4 ("TB4 certified" not "TB4 compatible" - compatible only indicates downward compatibility), USB 4 only guarantees 20 GB/s data rate. Thunderbolt 4 certified guarantees at least 40 GB/s.