AMD Ryzen 3 210

An entry point into AMD's "Strix Point" generation, which is a bigger deal than the Ryzen 3 badge might suggest — this is 4nm Zen 5 silicon, the same platform underpinning AMD's newer Ryzen AI chips, just configured with four cores instead of six or eight.

Eight threads and a 4.7GHz boost clock give it real multitasking headroom compared to the two-core Athlon lineup, at a 28W envelope that's efficient for what it delivers. As a newer part it hasn't accumulated much real-world benchmark data yet, but the underlying architecture is a solid one.