AMD's new Athlon 200GE Desktop Processor, with $ 55, combines Zen Cores

AMD has announced a new low-end desktop processor based on its updated Zen kernel. To date, Ryzen's updates have focused on processors at $ 100 and up with at least four cores. This time, AMD revives the old Athlon brand and reduces the price of its new processors.

The new Athlon 200GE is a $ 55 dual-core processor, featuring four run-time units, three GPUs (ie, 196 GPUs) and a 3.2 GHz flat clock . AMD notes that new cores offer "up to 169% more reactive computing than AMD's previous AMD A6-9500E generation." The A6-9500E was a Carrizo-based product with a base of 3.0 GHz, 3.4 GHz, a 2C / 2T configuration. , and the same TDP of 35W. There is no doubt that a modern processor derived from Ryzen would be significantly faster, and the launch of the Athlon 200 GE means that AMD is finally preparing to clean the last of the Carrizo products and other products derived from the Bulldozer still stuck on the market. In fact, it is not even worth comparing them. Ryzen is faster than any Carrizo heart that you will find for a comparable price.

Against Intel, the competition is a little more interesting. The strongest competition for the new Athlon 200GE is the Celeron G4920, a 2G / 2T Coffee Lake chip at 3.2 GHz (no heart has Turbo). Between the two, we bet on the Athlon – Intel has a performance advantage over a single thread, but the addition of HT support for AMD should offset these improvements. That said, there is a problem for both cores: the Intel Pentium Gold G5400 processor at $ 70.

The G5400 is a 3.7 GHz processor with two cores and four threads, corresponding to the Athlon 200GE. Its additional 500 MHz processor clock will probably give it the advantage in terms of performance – a clock differential of 1.15 times would be hard to overcome for AMD, since Intel processor performance is generally more effective. But again, it's not surprising to see this kind of jump in the bottom of the market. $ 55 tokens are for customers for whom every dollar counts, and $ 55 to $ 70 is an increase of 1.27 times the price. For most people, these $ 15 are not huge, but if you try to save every penny, it still counts. And the Athlon 200 GE should compete well with the Celeron that it has faced, regarding the strict price.

AMD also plans to launch two new entry-level chips, the Athlon 220 GE and 240 GE. The specifications of these parts have not been improved, but it would not surprise us if the company only offered dual-core processors in the Athlon family, reserving the Ryzen brand for its quad and higher chips.

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