Some benchmarks of Thuban X6 1090T

[TheBlueChanell]

And the point is ? AMD needs a 2 cores and 200MHz advantage to match the 1 1/2 year old i7 tech 960 ?
No matter how I try to have a look at it, I can't see any "miracles" or progress from AMD.
Intel's closing in on faster clock-per-clock processors than Gulftown and going to 8 and 10 cores ( 16 & 20 threads ) in Nov/Dec or Jan-March 2011.
AMD's at 12 Cores / 12 threads, but unless their performance clock per clock and on a core to core basis is the same with these, those will barely compete with the 8c/16t Intel CPU.

They need to work harder.

Nice performance and good prices are always nice, but they need to step up the game before they get down below ( performance-wise ).

I'm all in for performance.
Can we have an Opteron 146 and DFI LP nF4 SLI-DR de-javu anytime soon AMD please ?

There you have it.

i7 930 @ 4.2ghz = 7.20
X6 1050T @ 4.2ghz = 7.38

6 Physical Phenom 2 cores, are on par or surpass an i7 9** with 4 phsyical / 4 logical cores. (In Cinebench and hopefully other heavily threaded apps/benchmarks)

That's the first time in years, outside of gaming, that AMD has had a chip to match Intel at the same clock speed.

AMD's brute force method of throwing more cores @ i7's hyperthreading seems to have paid off.

That being said, if scaling is linear than a $295 1090T @ 3.2ghz stock should be able to perform within roughly 90-110% of the i7 960 @ 3.2 stock in heavily threaded benchmarks.

As far as gaming goes the Ph2 is pretty much equal and in some cases even faster than the i7. Bloomfield takes the cake in the more CPU aware games like Far Cry 2, or Resident Evil 5 and Thuban's 2 extra cores should help with that. For games that can only utilize 2-3 cores, The 1050/1090T's respective 3.3/3.6ghz Turbo modes should make for an extremely interesting set of numbers.

How is that not a win? What is there not to be impressed with? 2 more cores added to the same process node while maintaining the same thermal envelope as their last flagship quadcore and from what we've seen just as clockable as their quad counterparts.

Seems like a good deal to me. The greatest thing is, anyone with an AM2+ motherboard is going to be able to breathe new life into old machines.

This is just another much needed step in the right direction for AMD. Every single CPU refresh that's been released has brought performance improvements even when based on the same stepping. i.e 955 c2 vs. 965 c2 This started all the way back with 940, X3 720 came out and it was a better piece of silicon, then the 955, then the 965, then C3 and now Thuban.

I run both Intel and AMD and It's not hard to see that this is good for everyone. This should definitely rumble Intel's feathers and if anything it will give those absolutely blinded by blue some nice price drops on CPU's for their respective platforms.

I don't understand why people don't want to see AMD succeed.