Mobile Athlon 64 3200+ vs FX-4170

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Primary details

Comparing FX-4170 and Mobile Athlon 64 3200+ processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1958not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataMobile Athlon 64
Power efficiency1.45no data
Architecture codenameZambezi (2011−2012)Newark (2003)
Release date27 February 2012 (12 years ago)August 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

FX-4170 and Mobile Athlon 64 3200+ basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)1 (Single-Core)
Threads41
Base clock speed4.2 GHzno data
Boost clock speed4.3 GHz2 GHz
Bus rateno data800 MHz
L1 cache192 KB128K
L2 cache4096 KB1 MB
L3 cache8192 KBno data
Chip lithography32 nmno data
Die size315 mm2193 mm2
Maximum core temperature61 °Cno data
Number of transistors1,200 million106 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--
P0 Vcore voltageMin: 1.1875 V - Max: 1.4125 Vno data

Compatibility

Information on FX-4170 and Mobile Athlon 64 3200+ compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketAM3+754
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt62 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by FX-4170 and Mobile Athlon 64 3200+. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

AES-NI+-
FMA+-
AVX+-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by FX-4170 and Mobile Athlon 64 3200+ are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by FX-4170 and Mobile Athlon 64 3200+. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR1

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by FX-4170 and Mobile Athlon 64 3200+.

PCIe versionn/ano data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

FX-4170 3034
+831%
Mobile Athlon 64 3200+ 326

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 4 1
Threads 4 1
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 62 Watt

FX-4170 has 300% more physical cores and 300% more threads.

Mobile Athlon 64 3200+, on the other hand, has 101.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FX-4170 and Mobile Athlon 64 3200+. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that FX-4170 is a desktop processor while Mobile Athlon 64 3200+ is a notebook one.


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