AMD Phenom X6 1090T Black Edition & 1055T launch on 4/27

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...or not.

Sweeper summed it up nicely.

The Phenom II X6 will have +50% cores

Which are going to be utilized in few and very limited situations. In the same scenario, i7 has 4 extra virtual cores which are helping many heavily multithreaded apps. Combined with the more efficient architecture, I'm pretty sure i7 will win in almost all the general user software available up to date.

and higher clocks as well. It will win by force of numbers.

I'm afraid you are misinterpreting performance with frequency. Nehalem has much more efficient architecture than K10h. The differences between these two have been covered like million times on this forum, so I'm not going to talk about that.

i really doubt that part, ur expecting that 9 out of 10 things we use, will be 20-30% slower for amd of either comparison of 6core vs 8 threads, or amd vs intel turbo.

Exactly, Deneb/Thuban cores are around 25% slower than i7 cores in average, clock for clock. At least 9 out of 10 things can't utilize more than 4 cores. In such scenarios, an i7 will outperform K10h. In that 1 out of 10 things, Thuban might or might not win, depending on how HT can help i7's cores for a given software.