The Core i3-4170 is a cpu manufactured by Intel that was released on March 2015. This model has 2 Haswell cores with HyperThreading, runs at 3700 MHz as base frequency and has a a thermal design power of 54 W.
The i3-4170 has 2x32+2x32 kB of cache L1, 2x256 kB of cache L2 and 3072 kB of cache L3.
"Haswell is known as fourth-generation core too. It uses 22nm Tri-Gate FinFET (non-planar, ""3D"") technology. It includes four arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and three address generation unit (AGU). This generation is able to run Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) instruction set among BMI1, BMI2, ABM and FMA3. At this time, Intel used new sockets: LGA 1150 for desktops and BGA1364 for the mobile CPUs."
The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs
Monothread
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
4235
7705 (x1.8)
Test#2 (FP)
10580
27136 (x2.6)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4867
11480 (x2.4)
Test#1 (Memory)
4200
2681 (x0.6)
TOTAL
23882
49003 (x2.1)
SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
13103
25810 (x2.0)
Test#2 (FP)
11680
25003 (x2.1)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5065
11964 (x2.4)
Test#1 (Memory)
4190
3875 (x0.9)
TOTAL
34038
66651 (x2.0)
AVX optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode II (AVX) is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the first version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX compatible CPU was released in 2011.
Monothread
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
13243
28152 (x2.1)
Test#2 (FP)
12371
29953 (x2.4)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5110
11838 (x2.3)
Test#1 (Memory)
4168
2733 (x0.7)
TOTAL
34892
72676 (x2.1)
AVX2 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode III (AVX2), like AVX1, is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the second version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX2 compatible CPU was released in 2013.
Monothread
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
22166
46999 (x2.1)
Test#2 (FP)
12584
31063 (x2.5)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5089
11963 (x2.4)
Test#1 (Memory)
4399
2683 (x0.6)
TOTAL
44238
92708 (x2.1)
Monothread performance graph
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.
Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.
Test#1 (Integers) [% vs time]
Test#2 (FP) [% vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [% vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [% vs time]
Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.
If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.