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

[Oliverda]

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.

I'm pretty sure that you're completely wrong but the time will prove right one of us.

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.

Don't be afraid because I'm not misinterpreting anything. I know both architectures well. Just try to understand that the X6 will have 50% more cores than Bloomfield/Lynnfield which can compensate the lower clock2clock performance in many applications. That's all.

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.

Just to mention some popular titles which can take advantage of the 6 or more threads/cores: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas, Cyberlink converters, Finereader, 3ds max, Maya, Lightwave, etc...

If an application can't take advantage of the more than four thread/cores than it can't take advantage of the HT neither.