A Closer Look

The Athlon 200GE comes in a compact white box. You can tell it's "Zen" based by looking at that orange circular brushstroke, "Athlon" written in the same font as "Ryzen," and a prominent silver band in the front face with Radeon Vega branding.


AMD is including a basic OEM cooling solution that isn't much different from the ones previous generation Athlons came with, only this one supports AM4. The cooler is essentially a hunk of aluminium ventilated by a 60 mm PWM fan, and looks sufficient to cool a processor with just 35 W TDP.


The Athlon 200GE package looks just like any other Ryzen socket AM4 processor, with a metal integrated heat-spreader up front and a 1,331-pin PGA at the back.


AMD continues to use the AM4 socket, which means all existing Ryzen motherboards will be compatible with the Athlon 200GE. The company also plans to stick to AM4 for the rest of this decade, so there's a pretty long upgrade path ahead for this platform.