AMD lastly takes on Intel’s Pentium chips with a $55 APU

Today AMD has formally introduced the return of the Athlon vary after a protracted stint on the backburner. The finances chips, which have made a couple of appearances this 12 months within the type of rumours, will lastly enter the market: beginning with the dual-core Vega-equipped Athlon 200GE and Athlon Pro 200GE.

The Athlon 200GE is a dual-core, four-thread APU, due to simultaneous multithreading, and options three Radeon Vega graphics Compute Units for simply sufficient built-in graphical energy to maintain video and lightweight graphical duties chugging alongside. I’m afraid something apart from minesweeper is perhaps a little bit of a stretch for this APU alone.

The Athlon 200GE is clocked solely at 3.2GHz, so it’s not the quickest chip going both. But, realistically, this $55 processor is meant to compete with Intel’s largely untouched Pentium lineup for entry-level PCs. Specifically, AMD is promoting the Athlon Pro 200GE APU as 19% sooner than Intel’s Pentium G4560 in system computational benchmarks (Cinebench R15 multithreading and PCMark10 Extended), and 67% sooner in terms of graphical workloads (3DMark11).

The Athlon 200GE will probably be accessible from September 18, and later this 12 months the AMD Athlon vary will develop additional with the Athlon 220GE and 240GE. However, except for the title and launch window, we don’t have every other particulars about these finances chips simply but.

Aside from the Athlon APUs, there are additionally three extra straight processors from staff crimson on the way in which. AMD refreshed the patron Ryzen lineup again in April with the 12nm 2000-series chips, however right this moment sees the launch of three new Pro workstation-grade processors: the Ryzen 7 Pro 2700X, Ryzen 7 Pro 2700, and Ryzen 5 Pro 2600.

The Ryzen 7 Pro 2700 and 2600 each characteristic the identical clockspeeds as their shopper brethren, albeit with the reliability, safety, and workload centered enhancements AMD provides to its Pro lineup. But, the Ryzen 7 Pro 2700X, regardless of the identical 105W TDP, truly options barely decreased clockspeeds at 4.1GHz increase / 3.6GHz base in comparison with the Ryzen 7 2700X at 4.3GHz increase / 3.7GHz base.

Intel and Nvidia are each slated for large launches earlier than 12 months’s up (the Intel i9 9900K and Nvidia RTX 2080 when you hadn’t already heard), nonetheless, for AMD, the rest of the 12 months appears principally centered on increasing the workstation {and professional} markets, with a 7nm Vega GPU additionally on the playing cards. AMD’s huge push with Zen 2 CPUs and Navi GPUs aren’t anticipated till the primary half of 2019.