AMD Phenom II X6 1055T & 1090T Reviews

[Sly Fox]

Is bulldozer going to be AM3 compatible?

I suddenly find myself seriously considering jumping ship and going AMD for a while.

[crazydiamond]

yup bulldozer will be am3 compatible.. hop on over

[Sly Fox]

yup bulldozer will be am3 compatible.. hop on over

Oh god, I almost wish you didn't just say that.

My wallet says "no" but my heart screams "yes!!"

[Chrono Detector]

A lot of people said that slapping an extra 2 cores will limit the overclocking to these X6 CPU's, but the reviews proved that a 4Ghz and over on air is possible. Very impressive from AMD.

[FlanK3r]

yup bulldozer will be am3 compatible.. hop on over

but dont forgot, this is only for first generations BUlldozer im thinking.

[64NOMIS]

Reserved.

[kemo]

Is there is any review talking about how the Turbo will behave with an overclocked system "say 4GHZ" and how will it affect stability

[Dainas]

Wish someone would actually talk about AM2+ DDR2 motherboard support. Everyone is soo mealy-mouthed about what these cpus will and will not just drop into its infuriating.

And before someone yells just get a new AM3 motherboard remember; the 1055t is a $200 processor, even after years of price cuts by AMD thats still chump change in the world of high performance CPU's! Easily worth every penny to upgrade from an old stodgy Phenom.

[Lightman]

I just finished Anand's article and it was lacking a bit...
Which one is showing results of memory overclocking? How high new NB can push DDR3?

I will read more reviews @work (if possible) but I can't still buy one in UK

[richierich]

Most reviews about overclocked Phenom II processors never even bother overclocking the NB, which is a shame.

[kemo]

From hardwarecanucks

Due to severe time constraints we won't be wow'ing you with our extensive overclocking endeavours, but here is a teaser for an overclocking article that will be posted next Monday:

In the follow-up article, we will be testing various things like max stable bus speed, max stable northbridge frequency, and max stable memory frequency. Also, since this is a question that we have seen asked over & over, we will be comparing Phenom II X6 overclocking on both AMD 790-series and 890-series chipset motherboards.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...review-16.html

[dartaz]

I just looked at Anandtech and xbitlabs review, and I've noticed that i7 860 outperformed 1090T in majority of benchmarks.

[ridney]

Is there is any review talking about how the Turbo will behave with an overclocked system "say 4GHZ" and how will it affect stability

it will also have an overclocked turbo, since you're overclocking from the bus speed and turbo multiplier (16.5 from 14) remains the same. stability depends on how high a clock speed it can support during turbo.

[massman]

Overclocking article at HWBOT: http://hwbot.org/article/news/hwbot_...rature_scaling

[CrimInalA]

excellent toys to play with (x6 + AM3 board)

[ajaidev]

The 1090T does put on a good show very good processor and better than i7 930 in most tests.

Did u all see this

Overclocking article at HWBOT: http://hwbot.org/article/news/hwbot_...rature_scaling

+1

Very interesting about how well this can be OCed in 45nm ....

[madcho]

you can add the excelent review of hardware.fr

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/789-...90t-1055t.html

[dartaz]

The 1090T does put on a good show very good processor and better than i7 930 in most tests.

The reviews I've seen show i7 930 and 860 performing better in most tests

So far, Ive looked at anandtech, techspot and xbitlabs

At what reviews did you look ? Maybe we looked at different reviews

Did u all see this

Good power consumption at idle. At full load it consume much more power than Intel Lynnfield processors


EDIT: Did you look at this ?

[Chrono Detector]

Guru3d and Tom's Hardware pretty much shows the 1090T beating the i7 930 in most benchmarks

[richierich]

fark a review I say, I only look at overclocked results anyhow

[richierich]

Check out the Hexus review as well, pretty good comparisons.

[BoredByLife]

Just a side note:

AMD's L3 cache contains all the L2 caches of the cores right? So with six cores you lose 3MB of your L3 cache, leaving only 3MB left? As with a quadcore you would have 4MB left.

This might be some explanation to why it performance should be less in single threaded apps (and offcourse the same memory bandwidth then a quadcore)

[Marco André]

In progress: http://www.lilireviews.com/amd-phenom-ii-x6-1090t/
It's portuguese

[madcho]

Just a side note:

AMD's L3 cache contains all the L2 caches of the cores right? So with six cores you lose 3MB of your L3 cache, leaving only 3MB left? As with a quadcore you would have 4MB left.

This might be some explanation to why it performance should be less in single threaded apps (and offcourse the same memory bandwidth then a quadcore)

For intel yes but for AMD it's not true.

It's the difference between exclusive and inclusive disign.

The real total cache of intel is the last cache and AMD this include all caches.

The Phenom X6 has in fact 6MB + 6*512kB + 128kB*6 = 9984KB

[vardirox]

Guru3d and Tom's Hardware pretty much shows the 1090T beating the i7 930 in most benchmarks

Lost Circuit tests show AMD 1090T now hold worlds fastest title for stock bench of MainConcept H264 encoding by screaming past every desktop Intel CPU in the marketplace.



Add also second place in important 3D Studio Max 2010 bench --



For games, Overclock3D shows high performance in games and minimum frame rate of AMD 1090T in Crysis is three times i930 !