AMD FX-Series FX-4170 - FD4170FRW4KGU / FD4170FRGUBOX

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AMD FX-4170 specifications

General information
Type	CPU / Microprocessor
Market segment	Desktop
Family	AMD FX-Series
Model number ?	FX-4170
CPU part numbers	FD4170FRW4KGU is an OEM/tray microprocessor FD4170FRGUBOX is a boxed microprocessor
Frequency ?	4200 MHz
Turbo frequency	4300 MHz (2 cores or less)
Package	938-pin micro-PGA package
Socket	Socket AM3+
Weight	1.4oz / 38.3g (CPU) 1lb 2.2oz / 515.1g (box)
Introduction date	February 27, 2012
Price at introduction	$135

Architecture / Microarchitecture
Microarchitecture	Bulldozer
Platform	Scorpius
Processor core ?	Zambezi
Core stepping ?	B2
Manufacturing process	0.032 micron
Data width	64 bit
The number of cores	4
The number of threads	4
Floating Point Unit	Integrated
Level 1 cache size ?	2 x 64 KB two-way associative shared instruction caches 4 x 16 KB 4-way associative data caches
Level 2 cache size ?	2 x 2 MB 16-way associative shared exclusive caches
Level 3 cache size	8 MB up to 64-way associative shared cache
Multiprocessing	Uniprocessor
Features	MMX instructions SSE / Streaming SIMD Extensions SSE2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE3 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSSE3 / Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSE4 / SSE4.1 + SSE4.2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 ? SSE4a ? AES / Advanced Encryption Standard instructions ABM / Advanced Bit Manipulation ? AVX / Advanced Vector Extensions FMA4 / 4-operand Fused Multiply-Add instructions XOP / eXtended Operations instructions AMD64 / AMD 64-bit technology ? VT / Virtualization technology ? EVP / Enhanced Virus Protection ? Turbo Core 2.0 technology
Low power features	Core C1, C1E, C6 and CC6 states Package S3, S4 and S5 states PowerNow!

Integrated peripherals / components
Memory controller	The number of controllers: 1 Memory channels: 2 Supported memory: DDR3-1866
Other peripherals	HyperTransport 3.1 technology

Electrical / Thermal parameters
Thermal Design Power ?	125 Watt

Notes on AMD FD4170FRW4KGU
The processor has unlocked clock multiplier NorthBridge controller frequency is 2.2 GHz

CPUs, related to AMD FX-4170

Model Cores /
Threads Freq. Turbo
freq. L3
cache TDP Features Price

AMD FX-Series family, Socket AM3+

   FX-4170 4 / 4 4.2 GHz 4.3 GHz 8 MB 125 Watt $122

   FX-4350 4 / 4 4.2 GHz 4.3 GHz 8 MB 125 Watt $122

   FX-6100 6 / 6 3.3 GHz 3.9 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt $112

   FX-6120 6 / 6 3.5 GHz 4.1 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt

   FX-6300 6 / 6 3.5 GHz 4.1 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt $112

   FX-6200 6 / 6 3.8 GHz 4.1 GHz 8 MB 125 Watt $132

   FX-6350 6 / 6 3.9 GHz 4.2 GHz 8 MB 125 Watt $132

   FX-8100 8 / 8 2.8 GHz 3.7 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt

   FX-8120 8 / 8 3.1 GHz 4 GHz 8 MB 125 Watt $153

   FX-8120 (95W) 8 / 8 3.1 GHz 4 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt

   FX-8140 8 / 8 3.2 GHz 4.1 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt

   FX-8300 8 / 8 3.3 GHz 4.2 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt

   FX-8320 8 / 8 3.5 GHz 4 GHz 8 MB 125 Watt $153

   FX-8150 8 / 8 3.6 GHz 4.2 GHz 8 MB 125 Watt $183

   FX-8350 8 / 8 4 GHz 4.2 GHz 8 MB 125 Watt $195

• Within each category, the CPUs are sorted from slower (at the top) to faster (at the bottom)

• The 'Price' column shows official AMD prices as of Apr 29, 2013. Prices for obsolete and tray-only processors are not provided.

• List of related CPUs is not complete.

FAQ

Q: Is there a way to unlock disabled cores on the AMD FX-4170 CPU?

A: No. This processor indeed has 4 disabled cores, but there is no known method to unlock them.

Q: My processor is running 55C under load. Is this normal?

A: Safe CPU temperatures are 60 degrees Celsius and below. It may still run fine with CPU temperatures, exceeding 60C threshold by a few degrees. Running the FX-4170 close to 70 degrees and higher is not recommended.

Q: I have an AMD FX-4170 processor. Can I upgrade it?

A: Probably yes. CPU compatibility is determined by your motherboard. Please see CPU-Upgrade.com website for CPU support list for your board.

AMD FX-4170 Overclocking

Sorry, overclocking information is not available at this time.

Pictures (4)


AMD FX-4170 box pictures
2012-05-21 13:21:06 Posted by: gshv
The box is white with large red arrow on front side. The box dimensions are the same as for FX-4100 / FX-6100 95 Watt CPUs, however the fan/heatsink is different. FX 4100/6100 use cheaper aluminum heatsink with small copper base, whereas this CPU comes with HSF with large copper base and heatpipes.


2012-05-21 13:21:41 Posted by: gshv
Front view.


2012-05-21 13:22:12 Posted by: gshv
Side view


2012-05-21 13:22:56 Posted by: gshv
View from the back

News

AMD to drop prices, launch FX-4130 CPU on August 27

Aug 24, 2012: AMD today updated A-Series, FX-Series and Phenom II pricing pages, lowering prices on full range of "Llano" APUs, and high performance K10 and "Bulldozer" CPUs. The pages shows effective date August 27, which suggests that the price drops will happen next Monday. Overall, the prices were cut by 1% - 23%.

Prices of AMD FX-4170 and FX-6200 processors

Mar 08, 2012: Less than two weeks ago AMD added FX-4170 and FX-6200 unlocked microprocessors to FX-Series line-up without releasing their pricing. FX chips had significantly higher (about 15%) stock clock speeds compared to older FX-4170 and FX-6100 models, therefore the new processors expected to be more expensive. Earlier this week AMD added FX-Series 4170 and 6200 CPUs to official price list, confirming those expectations.

AMD releases FX-4170 and FX-6200 CPUs

Feb 28, 2012: Yesterday AMD released two FX-Series "unlocked" microprocessors, based on Buldozer micro-architecture. New CPUs are FX-4170 and FX-6200. Details of these SKUs were known for quite some time. AMD FX-4170 was part of original Bulldozer announcement in October of last year. FX-6200 emerged in CPU specifications database on AMD website last December, which we mistakenly interpreted as a sign of launched product.

Pre-order prices for upcoming AMD FX CPUs

Feb 01, 2012: Last Sunday Intel listed three new Core i5 desktop microprocessors in company's official pricelist. Another desktop Core i7 model will be launched in two weeks. It seems that AMD also prepares to refresh their FX line of desktop processors, targeted at computer enthusiasts. We recently spotted available for pre-order unreleased FX-4170 and FX-6200 CPUs. Also, AMD is going to offer in US a variation of FX-8150 model with liquid cooling.

Benchmarks

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AMD FX-4170 benchmarks

The graphs below show up to 10 processors with aproximately the same level of performance in different types of applications. All processors were tested at nominal frequency (not overclocked), with stock heatsink and default BIOS settings. To see how the FX-4170 compares to other CPUs please see benchmark tools section above.

Benchmarked processor

CPU ID: 600F12

CPU vendor string: AuthenticAMD

CPU name string: AMD FX(tm)-4170 Quad-Core Processor

Integer performance

Part number Result

AMD Phenom II X4 925 (rev. C3) ?

105.8%

AMD A6-3670K ?

105.7%

AMD Phenom II X4 650T ?

102.2%

AMD Athlon II X4 631 ?

101.8%

AMD A6-3650 ?

101.8%

AMD FX-4170 ?

100%

AMD A8-3820 ?

99.3%

AMD Athlon II X4 2.6 GHz ZD260121K4216 ?

98.6%

AMD Phenom II X4 910e ?

98.4%

AMD Phenom II X4 910 ?

98.4%

AMD Athlon II X4 620 ?

98.3%

Floating Point performance

Part number Result

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 ?

113.3%

AMD Phenom II X3 715 ?

108.1%

AMD Phenom II X3 720 (BE) ?

107.8%

AMD Phenom II X3 720 (non-BE) ?

107.8%

AMD FX-4350 ?

100.6%

AMD FX-4170 ?

100%

AMD Phenom II X3 710 ?

99.9%

AMD Phenom II X3 705e ?

95.8%

AMD A10-5800K ?

95.5%

AMD FX-4300 ?

93.5%

AMD Phenom II X3 700e ?

92.4%

MMX / SSE / SSE2 performance

Part number Result

AMD FX-4350 ?

101.9%

AMD Athlon II X4 645 ?

100.9%

AMD Phenom II X4 960T ?

100.9%

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 ?

100.8%

AMD A8-3870K ?

100.7%

AMD FX-4170 ?

100%

AMD Phenom II X4 940 ?

99.1%

AMD Phenom II X4 945 (125W) ?

98.6%

AMD Phenom II X4 945 (95W, rev. C2) ?

98.6%

AMD Phenom II X4 B95 ?

98.6%

AMD Athlon II X4 640 ?

97.7%

Memory-intensive program performance

Part number Result

AMD FX-8150 ?

105.4%

Intel Core i7-940 ?

103.2%

AMD FX-6300 ?

102.4%

Intel Core i7-860 ?

101.5%

AMD FX-6200 ?

100.7%

AMD FX-4170 ?

100%

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (125W) ?

97.6%

AMD FX-4300 ?

97.2%

Intel Core i7-920 ?

97.2%

AMD FX-8140 ?

96.7%

AMD Phenom II X4 980 ?

95.7%

CPU ID (1)

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CPUID features of AMD FX-4170

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Manufacturer:	AMD
CPU Family:	FX-Series
Model Number:	FX-4170
Frequency:	4214 MHz

Part number:	FD4170FRW4KGU
Stepping Code:	FA 1202PGN
Comment:
Submitted by:	CPU-World

General information
Vendor:	AuthenticAMD
Processor name (BIOS):	AMD FX(tm)-4170 Quad-Core Processor
Cores:	4
Compute units:	2
Logical processors:	4
Processor type:	Original OEM Processor
Core stepping:	OR-B2
CPUID signature:	600F12
Family:	21 (015h)
Model:	1 (01h)
Stepping:	2 (02h)
Socket:	AM3+

Cache: L1 data L1 instruction L2 L3

Size: 4 x 16 KB 2 x 64 KB 2 x 2 MB 8 MB

Associativity: 4-way set
associative 2-way set
associative 16-way set
associative 64-way set
associative

Line size: 64 bytes 64 bytes 64 bytes 64 bytes

Lines per tag: 1 1 1 1

Comments: 1 cache per 2 cores 1 cache per 2 cores

Instruction set extensions Additional instructions

MMX Advanced Bit manipulation

AMD extensions to MMX CLFLUSH

SSE CMOV

SSE2 CMPXCHG16B

SSE3 CMPXCHG8B

SSSE3 FXSAVE/FXRSTORE

SSE4A MONITOR/MWAIT

SSE4.1 PCLMULDQ

SSE4.2 POPCNT

AES PREFETCH/PREFETCHW

AVX RDTSCP

FMA4 SKINIT / STGI support

XOP SYSCALL/SYSRET

SYSENTER/SYSEXIT

XSAVE / XRESTORE states

Major features Other features

On-chip Floating Point Unit 1 GB large page support

64-bit / Intel 64 100MHz multiplier control

NX bit/XD-bit 128-bit SSE instructions

Secure Virtual Machine (Virtualization) 36-bit page-size extensions

Turbo Core Advanced programmable interrupt controller

PowerNow! / Cool'n'Quiet Core multi-processing legacy mode

Debugging extensions

Extended APIC space

Hardware P-state control

Hardware thermal control

Instruction based sampling

LAHF / SAHF support in 64-bit mode

LBR virtualization

LOCK MOV CR0 means MOV CR8

Lightweight profiling support

Machine check architecture

Machine check exception

Memory-type range registers

Misaligned SSE mode

Model-specific registers

Nested page tables

OS visible workaround

Page attribute table

Page global extension

Page-size extensions (4MB pages)

Physical address extensions

SVM lock

Support for NRIP save

THERMTRIP

TSC rate is ensured to be invariant across all states

Temperature sensor

Time stamp counter

Virtual 8086-mode enhancements

Watchdog timer support

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Last modified: 15 May 2013