A USD$55 low-power Athlon 200GE with a Radeon graphics processor was introduced in September 2018, sitting under the Ryzen 3 2200G.[2] This iteration of Athlon used AMD's Zen-based Raven Ridge core, which in turn had debuted in Ryzen with Radeon graphics processors.[6] With the release, AMD began using the Athlon brand name to refer to "low-cost, high-volume products", in a situation similar to both Intel's Celeron and Pentium Gold.[2] The modern Athlon 3000G was introduced in 2019 and was positioned as AMD's highest-performance entry-level processor.[3] AMD positions the Athlon against its rival, the Intel Pentium. While CPU processing performance is in the same ballpark,[7] the Athlon 3000G uses Radeon Vega graphics,[3] which are rated as more powerful than the Pentium's Intel UHD Graphics.[7]