Conclusion

AMD presents with its Phenom II X6 series solid mainstream CPUs which come with a very competitive pricing. Although AMD got more competition from Intel in this segment especially the Phenom II X6 1090T is a very good product.

Starting with the Futuremark Benchmarks we can say that the we were positively surprised by the performance of this CPU. In 3DMark06 AMDs sixcore CPU shows about the same overall efficiency as Intels CPUs. Therefore AMD reaches about the same results with the same clock speed as Intel. In Vantage we see that the AMD start to suffer a bit. Due to the fact that 3DMark Vantage has been optimized for massive multithreading Intel generally performans quite a bit better. Very interesting are the results in POV Ray and Cinebench. Comparing single core Cinebnech on a 1090T performance wise you'll find the equivalent with the Core i7 920 from Intel. As soon as you start using all cores the AMD CPU starts to perform much better compared to Intel and it can even outperform a Core i7 975. Looking at all the SiSoft Sandra benchmarks it gets a bit darker for the AMD CPUs. Only in the Multimedia and encryption benches AMD shows its teeth.
It turned out that it is quite difficult to quantify the results gathered in our gaming benchmarks. Therefore we have to postpone a specific recommendation until we finish our platform benchmark where we're going to test some more games. As it is we see that for example in Streetfighter 4 the new X6 perform exceptionally well but in Crysis it's very slow, which leaves a very mixed impression.

AMDs brandnow six core CPU is quite economic in idle mode. Under these circumstances it draws only 91 Watt from the power plug, which is a very nice result. This result is down to the AMDs effecient power saving technologies. Also under load it isn't that bad with 198 Watts. Although it needs quite a bit more power then Intels Dual-Channel platforms its still below the Core i7 920.

If you are looking for a CPU with an appealing price/performance ratio AMDs Phenom II X6 1090T will definitely be a good choice. Already at the launch you can find some very good motherboards as there are for example the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula and the MSI 890FXA-GD70 which come with a lot of features and are also good for overclocking.

All the new AMD six core processors are available at Digitec to the following prices:

All recent AMD CPUs are available at Digitec.

• AMD Phenom II X6 1090T: CHF 349.- (EUR 249.-)
• AMD Phenom II X6 1055T: CHF 239.- (EUR 171.-)

Author: Marc Büchel, m.buechel@ocaholic.ch

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 9 - Super Pi / Wprime
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 10 - Compression
Page 3 - Platform, architecture and Features	Page 11 - Crysis
Page 4 - Test Setup	Page 12 - PT Boats Knights of Seas
Page 5 - Futuremark	Page 13 - Resident Evil 5
Page 6 - Cinebench	Page 14 - Street Fighter 4
Page 7 - SiSoft Sandra 1	Page 15 - Power consumption and Overclocking
Page 8 - SiSoft Sandra 2	Page 16 - Conclusion

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