
Phenom II X6 1090T gets a big boost in our Photoshop CS4 test, but it’s only enough to pass Intel’s Core i5-750. The rest of the Bloomfield parts are still faster and Gulftown holds a more significant advantage. Nevertheless, compared to Phenom II X4 965, the six-core processor represents a massive speed-up.

I know I promised that AVG would disappear in my Core i7-980X review, but it’s making one final showing here, since my Kaspersky test isn’t ready yet. The results are unsurprising.

Threading optimizations in 3ds Max help the Phenom II X6 1090T shoot ahead of Intel’s Core i7-930, -920, and Core i5-750, while the Phenom II X4 965 trails in last place.

Five Intel processors dominate here, though threading clearly gives the X6 an advantage over AMD’s previous flagship.


Speed-ups in 7-Zip place AMD’s hexa-core CPU just behind Intel’s quad-core Core i7-975 Extreme Edition. The significance here, of course, is that the Phenom II X6 1090T beats out Intel’s Core i7-930—a slightly more expensive processor.
- AMD Can Do Six Cores, Too
- Phenom II X6: A Family Of Two
- Making Sense Of Turbo CORE
- 8-Series Chipsets, Revealed
- Test Setup And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: Synthetics
- Benchmark Results: Media And Transcoding Apps
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: Crysis
- Benchmark Results: Left 4 Dead 2
- Benchmark Results: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Benchmark Results: DiRT 2
- Power Consumption
- Conclusion
I just cant remember tom's last review that had an nvidia card with an AMD processor.
In this case, it does not perform better than i7-920, even though the 920 is a 4 core cpu (and no, no one really runs it at 2.66, everyone pushes it at least to 3, since it takes nothing to get it to that speed, and it right away outperforms AMD's 6 core, and has a much better memory throughput).
I was able to hit 3.7 with Turbo CORE enabled fairly easily. It might go higher, but I'd argue this probably isn't as much of an overclocking chip as a 965 might be.
Actually it's under 300$, but still really affordable
Like playing games while having handbreak and antivirus running at the same time.
I can see why you would but do you realize the time this would take to do everyones favorite game? Not a reasonable thing to do...
I was talking about 1055T.