Amd athlon 200ge is just the first in a new family of processors, they won't support overclocking

Earlier this week, AMD officially unveiled the first Zen-based Athlon series processor, the Athlon 200GE, which arrives to compete with Intel's low-end solutions, an area that has been dominated by the Pentium brand.

AMD Athlon 200GE will not be the only member of a new family

Unlike Ryzen processors, which all feature an unlocked multiplier, AMD's Zen-based Athlon processors will ship without overclocking support, making them the first Zen-based processors with such a limitation. It's worth noting that Intel's similarly priced CPUs also lack overclocking support.

The Athlon 200GE will retail for around € 55, making it ideal for builders looking for inexpensive PCs, especially those who want a basic office machine for word processing, Internet browsing, and video playback. This type of system is focused on users who are not interested in overclocking, making it a useless feature for most of them. To all this it should be noted that the AMD processors do support overclocking by the BCLK, so it might not be entirely impossible to hide these new chips with a multiplier locked.

AMD has also confirmed that two additional Athlon processors will be released later this year, the Athlon 240GE and Athlon 220GE, though nothing is known about their specifications at this time. These processors are expected to be higher-speed variants of the Athlon 200GE, although AMD could also launch a low-TDP quad-core that would sit between the Ryzen 3 2200G and the Athlon 200GE.

What do you think of the new AMD Athlon based on Zen architecture? Do you think they should come with the multiplier unlocked?

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