Wednesday, September 5th 2018
AMD Athlon Pro 200GE Detailed: An Extremely Cut-down "Raven Ridge" at $55
AMD is giving finishing touches to its Athlon Pro 200GE socket AM4 SoC, which it could position against Intel's $50-ish Celeron LGA1151 SKUs. Leaked slides by PCEva reveals that it's a heavily cut-down 14 nm "Raven Ridge" die. For starters, unlike previous-generation Athlon-branded products on platforms such as FM2, the Athlon 200GE won't lack integrated graphics. Only 3 out of 11 Vega NGCUs will be enabled, translating to 192 stream processors, which should be enough for desktop, 2D, and video acceleration, but not serious gaming, even at low resolutions.
The CPU config is 2-core/4-thread, with 512 KB L2 cache per core, and 4 MB shared L3 cache. The CPU is clocked at 3.20 GHz, with no Precision Boost features. You still get GuardMI commercial-grade hardware security features. There is a big catch with one of its uncore components. The PCIe root-complex only supports PCI-Express 3.0 x4 out of your motherboard's topmost x16 slot, not even x8. Ryzen "Raven Ridge" APUs already offer a crippled x8 connectivity through this slot. AMD claims that the Athlon 200GE will be "up to 19 percent faster" than Intel Pentium G4560 at productivity work. When it launches on 6th September with market availability from 18th September, the Athlon Pro 200GE will be priced at USD $55.
Sources:
PCEva, HD-Technologica, VideoCardz
The CPU config is 2-core/4-thread, with 512 KB L2 cache per core, and 4 MB shared L3 cache. The CPU is clocked at 3.20 GHz, with no Precision Boost features. You still get GuardMI commercial-grade hardware security features. There is a big catch with one of its uncore components. The PCIe root-complex only supports PCI-Express 3.0 x4 out of your motherboard's topmost x16 slot, not even x8. Ryzen "Raven Ridge" APUs already offer a crippled x8 connectivity through this slot. AMD claims that the Athlon 200GE will be "up to 19 percent faster" than Intel Pentium G4560 at productivity work. When it launches on 6th September with market availability from 18th September, the Athlon Pro 200GE will be priced at USD $55.
56 Comments on AMD Athlon Pro 200GE Detailed: An Extremely Cut-down "Raven Ridge" at $55
And I'm sure it can game better than an UHD IGP. Some light gaming in 1366x768 display seems possible.
I want them to bring back the Duron brand. My first CPU was a Duron! It was "great" (read: I could afford it, and I was like 12 at the time!). It also overclocked by the exact amount of 0%. Not that I had even the slightest clue what I was doing, but I couldn't get it above stock clocks whatsoever. IIRC my brother's Athlon was a much better overclocker. Oh, how the world has moved on.
R7 2700x @45W TDP
Pretty sure this new Athlon and upcoming low-power entry level mobile chips will also support 4K HDR.
My initial guess aligns with yours @silentbogo , that at the very least you'd need an OC'd 8700k or similar, though probably even that couldn't do it. And by then you're likely pushing more than 100W just to run an single-threaded decoder, which is, as you say, stupid. But to each their own, I suppose.
Just like GPUs (or graphics accelerators, at the time), were created to avoid the difficulties of software rendering, now all hardware includes some sort of specialized video encoding/decoding accelerator. It's not only faster, it's also more efficient.
By the way, all decoders are very good at using all threads.
We need cheaper itx boards for this baby, I want one for my file sharing Pc, the 5150 is a bit old now.
Cause no one else has brought up or mentioned software decoding, yet you say:Kinda weird and pointless, don't you think?
Once again, to be even more speicific: HW decoding on iGPU, not dGPU. No one mentioned software decoding.
Prima.Vera asked if this CPU can decode h.265 10-bit HDR sources, and as it's obvious Vega has h.265 decoding, i guessed he was referring to CPU decoding. It kinda went from there.
So, sorry, mea culpa.
Where are the A300 and X300 chipset-less motherboards? We need them for these Athlons.