14 DAY TRIAL // Central processing units from AMD are pretty hard to find nowadays, mostly because the company has been focusing a lot on accelerated processing units instead, APUs for short. You know, basically CPUs with integrated GPUs.
AMD still makes some CPUs from time to time though, and the Athlon line accounts for most of them, though the FX-series covers the high end market.
Anyway, AMD is preparing to release three new Athlon chips, the Athlon X2 450, Athlon X4 840 and Athlon X4 860K.
The Athlon X2 450 is a dual-core with a base clock of 3.5 GHz and a Turbo Core clock of 3.9 GHz. Its TDP (thermal design power) is of 65W, while the cache memory (L2) is 1 MB.
The Athlon X4 840 and Athlon X4 860K are quad-core units with 4 MB L2 cache memory, but their TDPs are of 65W and 95W, respectively. In the same order, the frequencies are of 3.1 / 3.8 GHz and 3.7 / 4 GHz, respectively.
Some Athlon units are supposed to have programmable TDP (and, thus, adjustable performance), but AMD doesn't seem inclined to talk about the tech much.
The three upcoming Athlon processors are based on the Kaveri APU architecture but don't have integrated GPUs, at least not functional ones.