Benchmarks and Pricing (from Newegg and Various European Retailers) for the AMD Athlon 200GE

[PlayStation 2]

There hasn't been... much, released about this chip, but it's something I really am interested in so I might as well go over some benchmarks.

 

Hardware Unboxed:

Corresponding TechSpot article:

https://www.techspot.com/review/1698-amd-athlon-200ge/

 

Pricing of the chips from AnandTech:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13376/amds-athlon-200ge-processors-now-available

 

Quote

 

While Ryzen processors are typically known for packing many cores, we've seen quad-core variants such as the Ryzen 3 1200 and more recently the 2200G. The Athlon 200GE is a dual-core though, but before your shrek louder than the coil whine of a cheap graphics card, consider the price, this is a $55 processor.

The Athlon 200GE's two cores are 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. You also get SMT, so although it’s a dual-core it does support 4 thread processing. So it’s like a traditional Intel Core i3, and like a traditional Core i3 it’s also locked. Indeed, AMD's now locking desktop processors.
 

 

 

Hardware Unboxed tested various games and benchmarks with the chip. One of the first they kicked off the chip with was memory bandwidth benchmarks.

Which is, to say, it matches an i3-8100 with 2400MHz DDR4 memory and blows the A12-9800 out of the water.

It also lagged a little behind the Pentium G4560 in Cinebench, scoring 130/360 in the benchmark, compared to the G4560's 149/382.

More benchmarks in the spoiler.

 

 

While the Athlon couldn't best the A12 in archive compression, it beat it in decompression using 7-Zip.

Its power consumption in the Blender benchmark is second to none, especially compared to the A12-9800 and besting the G4560 under full load by around 23 watts.


Likewise, its power consumption under gaming loads is the same story, using around 112 watts less than the A12, but barely scraping under the G4560.


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Gaming
First we kick off with Fortnite, which the A12 pulls ahead of the Athlon, but still paces well above the Pentium and the i3.


Battlefront II is a very impressive showing from the chip, managing 41fps where the Pentium and the A12 can't properly hit 30fps.


The testing for CS is... odd, to say the least. 720p maxed out?


For Overwatch, this chip landed around a cool 720p50, which 60fps should be obtainable with low settings.


Full benchmarks in the video and the article.

 

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In a nutshell, AMD’s new Athlon 200GE is "okay," not great, just okay. It doesn’t redefine the entry-level desktop CPU space like the Pentium G4560 did back in early 2017 and that’s a shame, because it very easily could have. Still, if it does arrive at the suggested $55 price point, then it will be the go-to budget CPU. In that sense, mission accomplished for AMD.

 

The CPU is available to purchase on Newegg for $60USD, currently.

Pricing for various retailers sourced from the AnandTech article:

This CPU was made available to purchase on September 21st, for those reading on a day that isn't when this article was made.

 

Personally, I'm actually incredibly hyped to see how this turns out with a little more extensive testing, because this could very well be a damn good budget chip, especially if price cuts come into play soon.

[PlayStation 2]

Re-edited; sorry for the inconvenience.

[GDRRiley]

cool, so we now got a decent chip to pair with GTX 1050s. Finally not spending equal on CPU and GPU

[Guest]

Price is a little inflated, can’t believe the nerve of these retailers when RRP is $55.

[Okjoek]

Waiting for RandomGamingInHD. That dude always gets me hyped up for cheap stuff.

 

 

 

[GDRRiley]

Just now, Okjoek said:

Waiting for RandomGamingInHD. That dude always gets me hyped up for cheap stuff.

 

 

 

yep, here is a 10 dollar thing that I could buy and test but instead you are watching me with my silly seagull 

[asus killer]

I dont see the value on this. You can get a g4560. Its basically just an alternative. Similar price and performance

[Fetzie]

30 minutes ago, asus killer said:

I dont see the value on this. You can get a g4560. Its basically just an alternative. Similar price and performance

AMD chipset motherboards are often 5-15 dollars cheaper than Intel boards at the same capability spec, so you need to take that into account when comparing prices.

[GoldenLag]

2 hours ago, asus killer said:

I dont see the value on this. You can get a g4560. Its basically just an alternative. Similar price and performance

There is the vega 3 GPU, which might sound insignificant, but more and more stuff is getting hardwareacceleration these days. 

[Doobeedoo]

That's actually very solid. 

[TheDankKoosh]

If this had overclocking support then it would be a cheap powerhouse, but without overclocking support it just becomes a cheaper, but also inferior counter to intel's pentium lineup. 

[demonix00]

18 hours ago, RorzNZ said:

Price is a little inflated, can’t believe the nerve of these retailers when RRP is $55.

I'm just wondering where from their backside Anandtech pulled that Amazon UK price from since they don't even have a price, and the only prices that are there are from marketplace sellers who seem to be taking scalping to the next degree by charging over £100 including delivery for it.

[Brooksie359]

38 minutes ago, TheDankKoosh said:

If this had overclocking support then it would be a cheap powerhouse, but without overclocking support it just becomes a cheaper, but also inferior counter to intel's pentium lineup. 

Honestly the 2200g is a much better deal. Yeah it's 40 bucks more but you get alot for that. 

[PlayStation 2]

3 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Honestly the 2200g is a much better deal. Yeah it's 40 bucks more but you get alot for that. 

Personally I'd argue that pricing on the chips is going to matter a lot for someone.

If you can dispose money towards the 2200G properly, they should do it, but if they can't, then I'd argue that this chip wouldn't be a bad start.

[TheDankKoosh]

1 minute ago, Brooksie359 said:

Honestly the 2200g is a much better deal. Yeah it's 40 bucks more but you get alot for that. 

Eh, if you're only going to use a 1060 or lesser tier card, then an overclocked 200GE would have been an amazing value prospect with a cheap 8gb kit of ram and b350 mobo.

[Brooksie359]

3 minutes ago, TheDankKoosh said:

Eh, if you're only going to use a 1060 or lesser tier card, then an overclocked 200GE would have been an amazing value prospect with a cheap 8gb kit of ram and b350 mobo.

Do we know if this will work without a bios update?

[PlayStation 2]

2 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Do we know if this will work without a bios update?

Seems like Hardware Unboxed used their 200GE on a board that already worked with the 2200G and 2400G, so while it'll probably need a BIOS update on those boards that don't already have an update in place for the 2xxx CPUs, it will probably work with those that do have an update for that.

[yolosnail]

5 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Seems like Hardware Unboxed used their 200GE on a board that already worked with the 2200G and 2400G, so while it'll probably need a BIOS update on those boards that don't already have an update in place for the 2xxx CPUs, it will probably work with those that do have an update for that.

I could be mistaken but I thought I heard somewhere that they could be used on 300 series boards without a BIOS update. Then again, I probably read it on WCCF so it's probably not true!

[Guest]

5 hours ago, demonix00 said:

I'm just wondering where from their backside Anandtech pulled that Amazon UK price from since they don't even have a price, and the only prices that are there are from marketplace sellers who seem to be taking scalping to the next degree by charging over £100 including delivery for it.

Hot damn i was just joking 100 pounds is rediculous

[poochyena]

Wonder if this will be the last dual core chip AMD ever makes.

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, poochyena said:

Wonder if this will be the last dual core chip AMD ever makes.

no there likely will be some laptop and embedded ones still dual cores in a few years 

[JoostinOnline]

Would much rather get a used i5 for the same amount and more performance. Being new isn't enough to justify a dual core anymore.

[GDRRiley]

Just now, JoostinOnline said:

Would much rather get a used i5 for the same amount and more performance. Being new isn't enough to justify a dual core anymore.

the issue with many of the i5s is that the board costs more than a cheap ryzen board. 

[JoostinOnline]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

the issue with many of the i5s is that the board costs more than a cheap ryzen board. 

Only if you're buying on eBay.

[GDRRiley]

Just now, JoostinOnline said:

Only if you're buying on eBay.

just overall. I know where to get full i5 systems from 2nd and 3rd gen maybe as new as 4th gen for about 100$ but most people can't. 
almost everywhere used your looking at 50-60 for board that supports 2nd or 3rd that isn't a Dell OEM board that only fits 1 model.