The ASUS ROG STRIX B650-A skips PCIe 5.0 on its PCIe slots

What PCIe slots are present on the ASUS ROG STRIX B650-A?

Here’s something you don’t see every day on a ROG STRIX board: no PCIe 5.0. The B650-A runs PCIe 4.0 across both its x16 slots — the primary at x16 from the CPU, the second at x4 through the chipset. There are no Gen 5 slots anywhere. For a premium-brand board on AM5, that’s an odd omission worth noting. It’s still plenty fast for current GPUs, but there’s no forward-looking bandwidth here.