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AMD has announced a new low-end desktop CPU based on its updated Zen core. To appointment, the company'southward Ryzen refreshes have focused on CPUs at $100 and up with at least four cores. This time around, AMD is resurrecting the erstwhile Athlon brand and slashing the price on its new CPUs.

The new Athlon 200GE is a $55 dual-core CPU with four threads, 3 Graphics Compute Units (so 196 GPU cores), and a apartment three.2GHz CPU clock. AMD notes that the new cores offer "up to 169 percent more than responsive computing than AMD's previous generation AMD A6-9500E." The A6-9500E was a Carrizo-based product with a 3.0GHz base, 3.4GHz boost, a 2C/2T configuration, and the aforementioned 35W TDP. There'south no question that a modern Ryzen-derived CPU would be essentially faster, and the launch of the Athlon 200 GE means AMD is finally moving to clean up the final of the Carrizo and other Bulldozer-derived SKUs nonetheless stuck in-market. In fact, information technology'south non even worth comparing against them. Ryzen is faster than any Carrizo core yous're going to find for a remotely comparable price.

Confronting Intel, the competition is a little more than interesting. The strongest competition for the new Athlon 200GESEEAMAZON_ET_135 See Amazon ET commerce is the Celeron G4920, a Coffee Lake 2C/2T chip at 3.2GHz (neither core has Turbo). Between the two, nosotros'd bet on the Athlon — Intel has an advantage in unmarried-thread performance, but adding HT support for AMD should start those improvements. With that said, in that location's a problem for both cores — the Intel Pentium Gold G5400 at $70.

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The G5400 is a 3.7GHz CPU with ii cores and four threads, matching the Athlon 200GE. Its additional 500MHz of CPU clock will probable give it the overall operation edge in this comparing — a 1.15x clock differential would be hard for AMD to overcome given that Intel CPUs are withal typically more efficient in performance per clock. Then again, it's not surprising to run into this kind of jump at the lower-end of the market. $55 fries are intended for customers for whom every dollar counts, and the jump from $55 to $70 represents a i.27x increase in price. For most people that $15 isn't much, but if you lot're trying to relieve every penny, it all the same counts. And the Athlon 200 GE should compete well confronting the Celeron it's matched confronting, as far as the strict toll point is concerned. We've heard the company is targeting the Pentium G4560 as its primary comparison point — while that chip is still a 2C/4T configuration, information technology's slightly lower elevation-terminate clock of 3.5GHz should make it a improve comparison point.

AMD is as well planning to launch two new entry-level chips — the Athlon 220 GE and 240 GE. Specs on these parts oasis't been revealed, just it wouldn't surprise us if the company sticks to offering dual-core CPUs in the Athlon family, reserving the Ryzen brand for its quad-core chips and in a higher place.

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