Some benchmarks of Thuban X6 1090T

[BenchZowner]

All I see is that the i7 950 had a clockspeed of 4ghz
..is that stock?

All I see is... that you need to clean your glasses or pay a visit to a doctor to have your eyesight checked, the only 4GHz thing in the screenshot is an overclocked i5 750

The point being that AMD has something that can perform on par with Intels best processors

Well...it's not exactly like that, isn't it ?
It can only battle the Bloomfields which are... well, introduced since late 2008.
Who needs an i7 950 or 960 when most of the 920's can do 4.2GHz 24/7 on air cooling ?
There goes the price tag difference when overclocking isn't "forbidden" or taken out of the question.

For $300 Intel only offers you a i7 930

Which can match/beat the Phenom II x6 in a lot ( if not most ) cases if you simply overclock it to 4GHz or so.
Unless AMD's x6 can clock 250MHz or so higher, granted that we'd overclock both CPUs.

Other than i7 975/980x the 1090T is in a very good position

I'm tired of "if you overlook this or that" when it comes to progress.
I want to see AMD surpassing Intel again, even if it's just 1% faster.

also the i7 950 was not launched in 2008 it was launched in Q4 2009.

You know what I meant. I meant that it's an i7 920 just with a higher default clock frequency, it's not like it's any faster clock per clock or a crazy overclock untouchable by a 2008 i7 920 C1.

and the 8 and 10 cores you mentioned they are not coming out as soon as you think.

I've got 2 birdies saying two different stories, I wouldn't disregard the possibility of getting released earlier

So i think you'd better save words and just post i7 980X.

All I'm going to post is:



That was the last time AMD was at least desktop-wise in front and VERY fun to overclock and bench with.