Athlon 3000G box gets a makeover The new box is bigger, has a new fan and no longer advertises “Vega” graphics. AMD Athlon 3000G new version, Source: Hoang Anh Phu The AM4 socket has been around for a long time already, long enough to see support for some now ancient Athlon CPUs. The Athlon 3000G […]
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.