AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.20 GHz

[Omega]

I just noticed that the temperatures for 4.1 ghz reached 76 degress. Isn't the maximum of the 1090t is only at 63 degrees?

Clock speeds automatically scale down to 1600 MHz when you reach ~ 80 degrees.

Will you be testing this with the 1090T?
Thanks

I'll check that one for you, sit tight.

 

[trt740]

Nice review

 

[Yukikaze]

I actually like the 1055T a whole lot more than the 1090T.

Over here the 1090T is quite a bit more expensive (Close to the 100$ mark per CPU) than the i7 920/930 lineup, with which it is pretty much tied performance wise (Which is quite the feat for AMD, actually, even if it took them six cores. On the other hand, they just pretty much matched the performance provided by Intel 1.5 years ago). The i7s, however, bring a platform capable of both SLI and Crossfire to the table due to the price difference (Unless one were to take a 1090T in a 770 or 785 chipset motherboard, but that makes far less sense as an enthusiast system - Works fine for non overclockers, though). If the i7 860 is taken as competition, then the 1090T is even less attractive over here due to the cheaper (When compared to X58s) P55 boards.

The 1055T on the other hand is absolutely bloody amazing for its price. Over here it sells at exactly the same price point of the i5 750 and it becomes harder to justify the P55 setup in this case (Especially when locally a 1055T and a Crosshair III can be had for the price of a 1090T if you shop around). I have a buddy who has a 770-chipset based AMD setup who could really benefit from an upgrade to a 1055T right now.

 

[rampage]

good review, strait to the point

i just got a 1090T black edition, i love it, altho they do need plenty of volts to get a high OC, i settled on 3.8 @ 1.35v x 6 cores and a turbo of 3 cores @ 4.3 ghz @ 1.45v 33c load,

also the temps seam to be out by 10>15c comparing in windows to bios (windows is cooler), time will tell, im expecting to see in a few month these chips burning out possibly because of people running them a bit warm

 

[chaotic_uk]

why you still using cat 9.12 drivers ?

 

[ensabrenoir]

I love great tech from every one

I've always choosen intel for power & performance, but I will build an amd x6 at some point just to experience it my self. Truthfully I got ticked when the hardcore amd guys started trumpeting of the new world order because of this cpu and how it can match/beat intel's six core. In fact it posted this just to tick them off:

Love AMD video cards, great value on the six core but....
Hyundai can make a car that looks like a Mercedes, has all the features Of a Mercedes, and cost 1/8 of the price of a Mercedes but its still a Hyundai. Having a six core that can barely handle an intel quad is like having a Ferrari with the performance of a mini van... a Hyundai mini van.
Still great value for the classification of a six core, but some perfer 100% angus beef not salisbury steak. Nothing against Hyundai or salisbury steak

But it was great to see a straight up comparison of the 1090t with its pears. I have a better idea of its capabilities. I'm workling on an i7 860 build presently. When i'm done, this will one of my future projects! I love good tech no matter who builds it. This is the best I've seen from amd in quite a while. I hope they keep it up!

 

[Omega]

why you still using cat 9.12 drivers ?

Because that was the newest driver available when i started benching CPU's on current benchmark suite. To upgrade the drivers, or game versions, or add new tests I would have to re-bench all of the CPU's you see in graphs, and I don't have all of them at my disposal at all times.

Drivers will be updated with new bench suite version, together with benchmarks when currently used ones are outdated. Until then, all of the CPU's are tested in same conditions.

 

[Zubasa]

why you still using cat 9.12 drivers ?

It really doesn't matter much, this is a CPU review
As long as all the software are the same for all the tests, it is fine.
Unless for example some games adds multi-core support with later patches.

 

[trt740]

I've always choosen intel for power & performance, but I will build an amd x6 at some point just to experience it my self. Truthfully I got ticked when the hardcore amd guys started trumpeting of the new world order because of this cpu and how it can match/beat intel's six core. In fact it posted this just to tick them off:

Love AMD video cards, great value on the six core but....
Hyundai can make a car that looks like a Mercedes, has all the features Of a Mercedes, and cost 1/8 of the price of a Mercedes but its still a Hyundai. Having a six core that can barely handle an intel quad is like having a Ferrari with the performance of a mini van... a Hyundai mini van. Still great value for the classification of a six core, but some perfer 100% angus beef not salisbury steak. Nothing against Hyundai or salisbury steak

But it was great to see a straight up comparison of the 1090t with its pears. I have a better idea of its capabilities. I'm workling on an i7 860 build presently. When i'm done, this will one of my future projects! I love good tech no matter who builds it. This is the best I've seen from amd in quite a while. I hope they keep it up!

No this would be like a very well built 4 door 8 cylinder sports sedan (AMD 6 core) against a Highend 12 cylinder SUV , both well built it's just how you get there thats different. You seem to be indicating AMDs cpus are lower quality which is wrong.

 

[cdawall]

No this would be like a very well built 4 door 8 cylinder sports sedan (AMD 6 core) against a Highend 12 cylinder SUV , both well built it's just how you get there thats different. You seem to be indicating AMDs cpus are lower quality which is wrong.

very wrong seeing how intel themselves admits there fab process is lesser than that of AMD even as far back as the phenom 1 days. i like thinking caddy CTS-V vs a caddy escalade with a chip in it. both are fast both handle high loads but the escalade can take more than the CTS-V

 

[trt740]

very wrong seeing how intel themselves admits there fab process is lesser than that of AMD even as far back as the phenom 1 days. i like thinking caddy CTS-V vs a caddy escalade with a chip in it. both are fast both handle high loads but the escalade can take more than the CTS-V

Friend a Sports sedan is like a Audi A 8 and the I7 is beefer like a SUV, in application nothing stops it, but in windows AMD is faster.

 

[cdawall]

Friend a Sports sedan is like a Audi A

bah CTS-V american muscle sedan

 

[trt740]

bah CTS-V american muscle sedan

and I wasn't knocking AMD

 

[cdawall]

and I wasn't knocking AMD

i wasn't trying to say you were sorry i am a little bit out of it just had some teeth pulled and on pain killers

 

[Loosenut]

Very nice review Omega. Thank you

 

[WarEagleAU]

Whee, power draw is a bit of a worry total, but over all, good chip

 

[ensabrenoir]

Luv amd just as much

No this would be like a very well built 4 door 8 cylinder sports sedan (AMD 6 core) against a Highend 12 cylinder SUV , both well built it's just how you get there thats different. You seem to be indicating AMDs cpus are lower quality which is wrong.

No disrepect to amd and any amd user. Amd has the same and sometime greater quality level as intel. Amd just takes a different path and posses a different customer philosophy.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Great review man. One note that has nothing to do with your review but on one of the tests, Photoshop. I use PS a great deal and its been multi threaded for sometime now. However major tasks like saving a tif file in layers still runs on a single thread. Its sad but true.

For me actions in Photoshop will never push a CPU like saving will.

 

[Makaveli]

76c full load does not look safe at all!

Good review.

 

[Omega]

76c full load does not look safe at all!

Those temps are for overclocked CPU. For stock, load temps were under 50c, and that's with small Katana III cooler set to ~1500 rpms.

 

[demonkevy666]

these reviews are mixed as some show it slow then I7 in encoding and then other faster :/

also scalability of real cores should be beating hyper threading. even with a slightly low IPC.

 

[PopcornMachine]

I hate the fact that these use so much power when overclocking, however, that is a universal caveat, but still 440 watts .

440 watts total system power.

Yeah, but it still more than doubled power usage when overclocking.

I find that very shocking, and disappointing. :shadedshu

I have an I7 920 system at 3.667 with HD 4830 crossfire, and it uses around 370 watts max at load.

 

[W1zzard]

Great review man. One note that has nothing to do with your review but on one of the tests, Photoshop. I use PS a great deal and its been multi threaded for sometime now. However major tasks like saving a tif file in layers still runs on a single thread. Its sad but true.

For me actions in Photoshop will never push a CPU like saving will.

how does save as tif consume any cpu time? all photoshop does is read from memory and write to disk or read from scratch and write to disk

 

[suraswami]

Good review. 91w idle, hmm I wonder if I lower the volts to .775v from regular 1.1v how much I can save on the idle watts.

 

[Super XP]

Omega, love your Avitar And wonderful review.

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