Clock tuning, and likely silicon binning, brings these APU TDPs down from 65W to 35W. A few weeks ago there were reports of Ryzen 3 2200GE and Ryzen 5 2400GE APUs on the way – as corresponding entries were found in motherboard maker compatibility lists. At the weekend these very parts arrived, quietly, as they were listed on the official AMD website. It turns out that the ‘E’ suffix stands for Efficiency.

The new AMD Ryzen 3 2200GE and Ryzen 5 2400GE APUs are, as you might guess, based upon the Ryzen 3 2200G, Ryzen 5 2400G APUs but have been tuned for efficiency. They offer slightly slower clocks, likely some silicon binning, and TDPs of 35W compared with their predecessors with 65W TDPs.