Amd athlon articles

Enthusiasts have pushed silicon to its limits for decades. The thrill of extra performance lives on, and here are some of the most iconic CPUs ever, revered for their overclocking prowess.

AMD is one of the world's oldest CPU makers and the subject of polarizing debate among tech enthusiasts for nearly 50 years. Its story makes for a thrilling tale of twists and turns that we examine today from past to present.

It's hard to overemphasize how far computers have come and how they have transformed just about every aspect of our lives. From rudimentary devices to the cutting-edge, you won't find a device not using some form of computing capability.

Many of the breakthroughs made since the advent of the transistor were simply inconceivable a century ago, but what makes tech culture even more interesting are the anecdotes and fun facts that came along the way.

AMD has overcome Intel in terms of performance before, but previous wins against the chip giant have been rare over the years. Furthermore, every time Intel looked inferior, it responded swiftly and effectively.

Today we're taking a look at the new Athlon 3000G, AMD's most affordable Zen-based processor yet coming in at just $50. To be clear, this unfortunately isn't a Zen 2 processor. In order words, this is similar to the Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G, featuring Zen logic cores with an integrated Vega GPU.

In an unexpected turn of events, it's now possible to overclock the otherwise-locked $55 Athlon 200GE processor. In what appears to be a slip up by MSI, the component maker has enabled Athlon overclocking with their latest BIOS release across its entire AM4 motherboard lineup.

Not that long ago we reviewed the $60 Athlon 200GE CPU and we've been wanting to come back to it for more. So we've dug out the plucky little Zen based chip and for comparison grabbed the Ryzen 3 2200G and Intel's Pentium G5400.

AMD's most affordable Zen based processor yet, the Athlon 200GE is just dual-core, but before your shrek louder than the coil whine of a cheap graphics card, consider the price, this is a $55 processor. Clocked at 3.2 GHz, there's 5MB of cache in total, and the integrated Radeon GPU packs just 3 compute units. The TDP rating has been set at just 35 watts.

AMD is replenishing its ranks with five "new" processors which include an ultra affordable dual-core model and a modestly priced hexa-core processor.