AMD's Ryzen 3 2200GE, Ryzen 5 2400GE are energy efficient APUs

AMD's Ryzen 3 2200GE, Ryzen 5 2400GE are energy efficient APUs

AMD has debuted a pair of new accelerated processing units (APU) with impressively low power requirements. Called the Ryzen 3 2200GE and Ryzen 5 2400GE. They are energy efficient versions of the previously released Ryzen 2200G and 2400G chips, offering a decent on board graphics processor and a reasonable Ryzen CPU on the same die. Where these are special though, is that they require much less power to run.

The Ryzen 3 2200GE has four cores, four threads, with a clock speed of 3.6GHz when boosted. It has 6MB of on board cache and is unlocked for those who want to overclock it. The big kicker though is that its TDP is just 35w, making it very viable for small form factor builds.

Its slightly bigger brother, the Ryzen 3 2400GE has a similar CPU, but with multithreading support it has eight threads to its name. It also increases the base count of eight GPU cores, to 11 and has an increased CPU speed of 3.8GHz. It too is unlocked, though with a TDP of just 35w as well, you may not want to overclock lest it lose some of its energy efficiency.

Both of these chips are a smidge slower than their 2200G/2400G counterparts, which along with select binning, is likely where these specialized APUs come from (thanks Hexus). So far AMD hasn't said much about availability either, so it's not clear quite how much stock of these chips AMD expects to have.

We also don't know what they'll cost either, but we would imagine at a similar sort of price to their standard iterations: $180 and $100 respectively.