Is this AMD’s Pentium equivalent?

[C3dr1c]

AMD has been a lot of the talk on the internet lately, ryzen was a huge comeback from bulldozer (a.k.a, faildozer) and piledriver, ryzen 7 for the high end, ryzen 5 for the mainstream, ryzen 3 for the budget, threadripper for the enthusiasts, but what about the extreme budget, who they have been catering to for the past few years, what about the a series and athalon chips, well they are coming back this September,  but are they truly worth the wait, or just buy a Pentium for the same price.

 

source: https://www.techsourceint.com/computing/amd-announces-new-am4-based-a-series-apus-athlon-x4-cpus

[themctipers]

You can't go much cheaper than a $110 RYZEN 3 though .. While being new and it having any price / performance 

[SCHISCHKA]

na this APU is the old architecture but made for AM4. I dont know why they are releasing these when the zen based ones are not far away

[tp95112]

8 minutes ago, rrubberr said:

Everything AMD makes is a Pentium equivalent.

 

(Please don't crucify me, I say this in jest.)

That actually made me chuckle hard

[Jito463]

The A series and the K7 series on AM4 have been known for a long time now.  It's just that it's been OEM only distribution until recently (and there was already a thread about it a while back).  My Gigabyte AX370-Gaming K7 board has a comment about these processors compatibility in the manual.

[Misanthrope]

10 minutes ago, rrubberr said:

Everything AMD makes is a Pentium equivalent.

 

(Please don't crucify me, I say this in jest.)

Technically correct because both intel and AMD processors are still technically IBM 80886 equivalents....they just happen to be millions of times faster than the original chip but still technically iterations of the original 80886 

[ItsMitch]

16 minutes ago, rrubberr said:

Everything AMD makes is a Pentium equivalent.

 

(Please don't crucify me, I say this in jest.)

Boy get on that cross right now.

[samcool55]

It's bristol ridge, nothing to see here!

It's raven rigde you want. That's the one that will use zen and vega tech.

[Dabombinable]

All I know is that I want a laptop with one of those sweet APU. Even if its at 2.2GHz. Because then I could compare it to my old laptop with its Phenom II N970 (2.2GHz) and Lemon with its A8 4555M (1.8GHz both modules under Windows, 2GHz both modules under Ubuntu 16.04, 1.6GHz base and 2.4GHz single module turbo) and see if AMD is a legitimate option in the mobile space.

[Okjoek]

So who's this being targeted at?

[Jon Jon]

1 hour ago, Okjoek said:

So who's this being targeted at?

It really sounds more like an OEM chip versus a DIY builders chip.

 

$300 store bought PC type territory.

[Sauron]

If you must have something now you can still get old Athlon IIs, they aren't bad for the price compared to the pentiums. Plus you can overclock them a bit.