The AMD Athlon 200GE is a desktop processor with 2 cores, launched in September 2018, at an MSRP of $55. It is part of the Athlon lineup, using the Zen (Raven Ridge) architecture with Socket AM4. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 4 threads. Athlon 200GE has 4 MB of L3 cache and operates at 3.2 GHz. AMD is building the Athlon 200GE on a 14 nm production process using 4,950 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on Athlon 200GE, which limits its overclocking capabilities.
With a TDP of 35 W, the Athlon 200GE consumes only little energy. AMD's processor supports DDR4 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 2666 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the computer, Athlon 200GE uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Radeon Vega 3 integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Athlon 200GE, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) will run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.