As New Athlon Shows Up, Some AMD APUs Sell for Less

In addition to canceling some future products, AMD is also releasing new CPUs while revising the pricing schemes of other processors.

Advanced Micro Devices didn't exactly hold an official conference on the matter, or even issue a written announcement to point out the newest changes.

One might say it is too busy with all the supercomputing going on and the role of the Opteron 6200 in that field.

It still took the time to release the Athlon II X4 651, the second FMI Athlon II chip (the first one was Athlon II X4 631).

According to CPU World, this new socket FMI unit has each of the four cores equipped with 1 MB of L2 cache memory.

The frequency of those cores is 3 GHz, 400 MHz more than what the Athlon II 631 has to offer.

Its price is of $92, which would be the same as 68.48 Euro if exchange rates dictated the European prices of central processing units.

As it stands, though, the product will probably sell for a bit more in Europe, the same way everything else has higher tags there than would be suggested by currently conversion.

It is also important to note that this newcomer, though an FM1 chip, is not an APU (lacks an integrated GPU) so anyone wanting to build some new desktop should keep that in mind.

Moving on, the price adjustments that AMD made were to the FX-6100 six-core AM3+ accelerated processing unit (3.3 GHz) and the A6-3500 (3 cores, 2.1 GHz, 2.4 GHz Turbo), both FM1 APUs.

The former dropped form $165 (122.82 Euro) to $155 (115.37 Euro), while the latter is now at $85 (63.27 Euro) instead of $89 (66.24 Euro).

Not all news is pleasant, though, as the report states also that two APUs got more expensive.

The A4-3300 (2.5 GHz dual-core) sells for $66 (49.12 Euro) instead of $64 (47.64 Euro), while the A4-3400 (2.7 GHz dual-core) saw its price go from $69 (51.32 Euro) to $71 (52.85 Euro).