Why waste the coolest design on their lowest end packaging?
not everyone play games
Is this fast enough for Win11 and 4K YouTube?
This new one supports Windows 11. I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason for its existence.
I find it kind of sad how the Athlon brand has been relegated to old slow CPUs like this. I understand Ryzen is the bigger, more recognized name now, but I always thought having the low end Ryzen CPUs (4 cores and under, maybe without HT) branded as Athlon was kind of cool. Just wish they’d refresh the lineup with some Zen 3 or 4 based chips.
Eh this isn’t some and only thing… Intels Pentium and Celeron lines are now their bottom barrel chips too. And i7s used to be their top tier outside of the server market? Now they have i9s…
Sometimes just to really say how much better the new components are? They gotta give them a new name, and thus push down their old brand.
And AMD has also kinda neglected their tiers below R5 in general. We don’t even have Zen 3 or 4 Ryzen 3s yet. And honestly it kinda seems like AMD has mostly just decided they’d rather price cut prior generation parts than make lower end chips example being they made the R5 1600 “AF” for $80 rather than making an Athlon or Ryzen 3 chip for a while there. And then when they did make the Ryzen 3 3100/3300? They were basically paper launched compared to the 1600 AFs.
Athlon 3000G still is way faster than an Athlon 64 X2 or Athlon XP… ;)
Hey, my Athlon XP 2500+ ran Half Life 2 like a champ!
They’d do it if they had enough low core count chips to sell in volume.
it probably costs AMD nothing to keep ordering these from Global Foundries. I’m GloFlo is just happy to have someone taking up foundry space. Dual Cores with SMT wouldn’t be terrible in 2023 just for a basic web browsing computer. With programs like Google docs and Office 365 just living in browsers, things like Canvas and Balckboard also only existing on a browser, and most of the most popular sites on the internet pretty much just being netflix, youtube, facebook, reddit, and instagram, tik tok and sites like that, all of which will run on pretty much anything, there isn’t much too wrong here. People were going on youtube, reddit, and facebook back in 2010 when most people had 2 cores. Sites have become more demanding, but hardware even at the low end is just so fast now for these ultra basic tasks. Haswell IPC is still more than usable in 2023 for web browsing. The biggest pain is really how heavy windows has become for essentially no real benefit to the user. to browse the web on windows 11 you end up eating up way more ram than windows 7. Mostly due to windows 11 running like a billion processes in the background doing random crap that does nothing to benefit me. Installing any linux distro or debloated windows version will really benefit a system like this. The less processes fighting each other just so you can watch subway surfer videos, the better. The media engine supports H264 and H265 decoding so that will do most of the heavy lifting for content consumption.
Same even on the macOS side. I have a sleek 12 inch MacBook, the top of the line 2017 model and it really chugs and saps battery to run spotlight indexing. I tried turning it off but then I can’t launch apps with it anymore. You’d think there’d be an option to spend the few thousand clock cycles to match against filenames in a single folder but nope!
Plan to install arch on that bad boy. Even if sleep won’t work and I have to boot it fresh. I want to use that computer still and with macOS I sorta can’t.
This! Someone I know cobbled a 3000G ITX but it only has to do office stuff and 1080p YT/Netflix. 16GB and an SSD, cost them almost nothing.
Too expensive for a 2-core cpu.
… sure. what’s your thoughts on a 2c APU?
Just get a used 2600 or used 4-6 core with built in GPU.
Anyone know how good is this CPU for a htpc? Can it play videos at 4k 60fps?
Its Vega 3 IGPU is surprisingly capable still
Thats better looking box than the one they use for Ryzens. And “Athlon” moniker did sound way better than “Ryzen”.