Posted on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 19:40 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
CPU World
reports AMD updated its official processor price list. The chip designers lowered the pricing of all Athlon II processors, as well as some A-series APUs. The APUs receive price cuts between 3.7% and 21.7%, while the Athlon II series gets a reduction between 14.7% and 31.6%. See the table below for a full overview.
The most heavily discounted processors are Athlon II X4 640 and X2 265. Their prices were dropped by 31% and 30% respectively. The remaining Athlon II X3 and X4 parts received 14.5% - 21% price reductions, and they are now firmly in the Pentium price range. Dual-core Athlon IIs and A4-Series products are now priced from $36 to $48, which means that they are positioned against Intel Celeron line. Yesterday's price cuts also included one "Piledriver" APU, A4-5300, which is now 11% cheaper. In addition to A4-Series products, AMD shaved a few dollars off the prices of A6-3670K, A8-3850 and A8-3870K first-generation APUs.
Two Athlon II processors were removed from the pricelist, possibly because they were discontinued. These are Athlon II X3 445 and X4 638.
| CPU model |
Old price |
New price |
Difference |
| A4-3300 |
$46 |
$36 |
21.7% |
| A4-3400 |
$48 |
$40 |
16.7% |
| A4-5300 |
$53 |
$47 |
11.3% |
| A6-3670K |
$80 |
$77 |
3.7% |
| A8-3850 |
$91 |
$87 |
4.4% |
| A8-3870K |
$101 |
$91 |
9.9% |
| Athlon II X2 250 |
$58 |
$47 |
19% |
| Athlon II X2 255 |
$60 |
$47 |
21.7% |
| Athlon II X2 260 |
$64 |
$48 |
25% |
| Athlon II X2 265 |
$69 |
$48 |
30.4% |
| Athlon II X3 450 |
$76 |
$60 |
21.1% |
| Athlon II X3 455 |
$76 |
$65 |
14.5% |
| Athlon II X3 460 |
$87 |
$69 |
20.7% |
| Athlon II X4 631 |
$79 |
$65 |
17.7% |
| Athlon II X4 640 |
$98 |
$67 |
31.6% |
| Athlon II X4 641 |
$81 |
$65 |
19.8% |
| Athlon II X4 645 |
$102 |
$87 |
14.7% |
| Athlon II X4 651 |
$92 |
$76 |
17.4% |
