AMD Releases FX-6200 and FX-4170 Processors; FX-8120 Gets a Price Cut

AMD sent word this morning that they’re doing some shuffling of their Bulldozer based FX processor lineup. Altogether in the near future AMD will be releasing a new CPU, releasing a previously announced CPU, and doing a price drop on an existing CPU.

CPU Specification ComparisonProcessorCoresClock SpeedMax TurboNB ClockL2 CacheTDPPriceAMD FX-815083.6GHz4.2GHz2.2GHz8MB125W$249AMD FX-812083.1GHz4.0GHz2.2GHz8MB95W/125W$199AMD FX-8100*82.8GHz3.7GHz2GHz8MB95WN/AAMD FX-620063.8GHz4.1GHzN/A6MB125WN/AAMD FX-610063.3GHz3.9GHz2GHz6MB95W$149AMD FX-417044.2GHz4.3GHz2.2GHz4MB125WN/AAMD FX-B4150*43.8GHz4GHz2.2GHz4MB95WN/AAMD FX-410043.6GHz3.8GHz2GHz4MB95W$109AMD Phenom II X6 1100T63.2GHz3.6GHz2GHz3MB125W$190AMD Phenom II X4 98043.7GHzN/A2GHz2MB125W$170

First and foremost, the FX-4170 is finally being prepared for release. This is AMD’s top quad core (two module) part, and while it was announced at the Bulldozer launch back in October AMD had said they weren’t going to be releasing it until later in the year. Like the FX-4100 it’s a harvested Bulldozer CPU, and is the first Bulldozer quad core with a 125W TDP, owing to its high clockspeeds.

The second product today is AMD’s new CPU, the FX-6200. Like the FX-4170 was to quad cores, this is the first 125W TDP part for AMD’s hex core Bulldozers. At 3.8GHz base and 4.1GHz turbo it has a higher base clockspeed than any of AMD’s octo core parts, however turbo caps out just a bit lower than the FX-8150. AMD didn’t give us the Northbridge clockspeed, but it’s almost certainly 2.2GHz given the TDP and clockspeeds.

Finally, the FX-8120 is getting a price cut today. Unfortunately AMD sent along their generic all-regions press release today, so we were not given any pricing information on the FX-8120 or any of the other processors mentioned today. We will update this article as soon as we have confirmed pricing from AMD, but in the meantime we’d expect AMD to knock at least $10 off of the FX-8120, while the FX-6200 and FX-4170 should launch not too far above their existing lower-clocked counterparts at $149 and $109 respectively.

Meanwhile, AMD has told us that the release of the FX-6200 and FX-4170 will be staggered based on region with no further information, so all we know at the moment is that they won’t be available in the North American e-tail market today.

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