AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

What do you want to do with your PC?AMD's made decent progress in the space of a year, working on its weakness in single-threaded performance and 1080p gaming while continuing to push its advantage in multi-threaded performance.To recap, here's a look...

AMD's made decent progress in the space of a year, working on its weakness in single-threaded performance and 1080p gaming while continuing to push its advantage in multi-threaded performance.

That makes the four-core, four-thread Ryzen 3 2200G particularly appealing for budget gaming builders and upgraders. The $99 chip delivers solid 720p performance thanks to its Vega on-chip graphics, decent CPU muscle for mainstream tasks, and can be dropped into an existing inexpensive 300-series motherboard (after a requisite BIOS update), to form the basis of a surprisingly capable low-cost PC. It’s also unlocked, so with proper cooling you can tune the graphics or the CPU to best suit your needs.

AMD certainly had great last year – maybe even their best in a decade. First they captured the hearts and minds of the mainstream buying public with their eight-core / sixteen thread Ryzen 7 and six-core / twelve thread Ryzen 5 series of CPUs. Then they...

The 2200G falls behind in heavily multithreaded workloads, but its gaming and lightly threaded performance is astounding for the price.

The Ryzen 5 2400G and the Ryzen 3 2200G are more relevant to budget-minded buyers, and offer an extremely tempting balance of CPU and GPU capabilities.

AMD’s new Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G chips are impressive. They feature decently powerful CPUs, and a Vega graphics core allowing for up to 1080p medium settings gaming, and more!