Comparison of AMD FX-4170 and AMD Phenom II X4 840

Attribute	AMD FX-4170 ×	AMD Phenom II X4 840 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD FX	AMD Phenom II
Model	AMD FX-4170	AMD Phenom II X4 840
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	4
Frequency (GHz)	4.2	3.2
CPU Threads	4	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.4	-
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	4.4	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	-
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3-1866	DDR2-1066
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2012	2011
Technology (Nm)	32	-
Socket	AM3+	AM3
Virtualization	amd-v	amd-rvi amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	8	2
Architecture	Zambezi	Propus
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	125	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	4,770	3,987
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	517	388
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,413	1,294
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	-	84
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	-	324
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.03	0.97
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	3.28	3.82
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	2,334	1,709
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	7,060	5,984