Active Blogs | Popular Blogs | Recent Blogs Late January, AMD did disappear from the catalog the FX-4100, replaced by a FX-4130 offering a "speedbump" a few megahertz for the same price. A good deal? This is what we'll see ...
Introduced in August 2012 and formalized in January, the FX-4130 is an evolution of the FX-4100. From the point of view of architecture, it is a family processor "Bulldozer" Zambezi has four hearts, like those of FX-8120 and FX-8150 (see test). So be careful, since this CPU is the previous generation to current processors "Vishera" which are themselves composed of VGP-BPS26A cores Piledriver (these references FX-8320 and FX-8350).
The strict point of view of the differences between the FX-4100 and FX-4130, AMD revises the base frequency on the rise from 3.6 GHz to 3.8 GHz and Turbo Boost frequency that takes 300 MHz to reach 4.1 GHz. However, this has a cost in terms of heat release, and FX-4130 has a TDP of 125 Watts instead of 95 Watts processor it replaces. Nothing terrible in itself, it will just have to check the consumption of the chip in practice, choose a cooler and a bit more efficient to avoid too much noise. Those delivered by AMD Version Box is perfectly capable of generating such a TDP, the Dell XPS M1530 founder and take this opportunity to deliver a new version of its cooling system. For the rest, the former founder of Sunnyvale not touch anything because it keeps the CPU 8MB L3 cache shared between the two modules CMT.
The test of this new processor is an opportunity for us to launch a new "feature" on PCWorld.fr, the dynamic display of results for our test protocols, now managed in a database and only in an Excel file on our machines work. You can then view the data set of each test on this page compiling all the data for our test protocol CPU.
The first data that we will exploit the consumer. Indeed, this FX-4130 has a TDP higher than 30W FX-4100. Do we find this increase?
Consumption at idle or load is actually higher. But as expected, since the Dell Vostro 1400 shows 17W more compared to the previous reference at rest, and 14W charging. For AMD, it is an opportunity to update its cooler version of Black Edition. This new CPU, it will be entitled to purchase a boxed cooler that is more efficient and reliable, while maintaining small dimensions as the previous model. Care, it seems fulfill its function as the 14W extra cash while maintaining the temperature of the CPU at 76 ¡ã C, but at the cost of a little more noise disturbing than the FX-4100 CPU cooler. We must therefore consider replacing it with another cooler quieter if silence is your primary objective.
If we compile the results of all our tests, weighted base and put in 100, we find that the performance index puts the FX-4130 as 9.57% faster than the FX-4100.
Note that the increase in frequency is beneficial in situations where the number of desktop processing units is the same.
Overall, AMD has sometimes take a little juice on the Bulldozer architecture. Tests in gross 6.27% there is a better and a 22.93% gap multimedia side. It also fared a little better for the office that relies more heavily on the frequency with 4.75% more Latitude d630 performance in this category. AMD promises are held throughout, although the rise in temperature slightly tarnishes the table.
The FX-4130 is an attractive alternative to processors from the competition. Despite a call price low enough, it will still think to predict the purchase of a heatsink replacement if your goal is to silence your config '. We have not addressed the overclocking part in this test, but the first BCLK changes and the coefficient indicates that the potential is there, can then increase a little performance on applications requiring a high frequency. Finally, as the FX-4130 is installed on a socket AM3 +, we can build a machine low cost initially and subsequently replace the processor when the need will be felt, which is not always the case Intel sockets with the more limited life.
Tag: Dell Studio 1558 , Dell Vostro 1510, Dell Latitude e6400
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