The AMD Athlon 5350 was a desktop processor with 4 cores, launched in April 2014, at an MSRP of $55. It is part of the Athlon lineup, using the Kabini architecture with Socket AM1. Athlon 5350 has 2 MB of L2 cache and operates at 2.05 GHz. AMD is making the Athlon 5350 on a 28 nm production node, the transistor count is unknown. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on Athlon 5350, which limits its overclocking potential.
With a TDP of 25 W, the Athlon 5350 consumes only little energy. AMD's processor supports DDR3 memory with a single-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 1600 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the machine, Athlon 5350 uses a PCI-Express Gen 2 connection. This processor features the Radeon R3 128CU integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Athlon 5350, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) can run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications.