Thread: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

In the desktop segment, AMD is in the past limited to offering the Phenom X4 variants in different markets: time with a slightly faster clocked version, sometimes with a low-clocked and energy-saving model. Really could stand up to you but since the introduction of Intel Core i7 not. Intel's Nehalem design and the following core AMD variants stood out in several areas. Only in the low-cost segment had some advantages, since the platform was very attractive price.



Intel has even a couple of alternatives here, but AMD a much greater product diversity and choice. With the AMD Athlon X6 comes now again available in the area of performance: six cores at 3.2 GHz to make up ground lost. AMD produced the six-core processor yet (like the number of transistors not call AMD) in 45-nm technology, but managed, despite the six cores on a level with the TDP quad-core models to stay. With 125 watts, it is no different here. This AMD achieved by a new production - the new Phenom II X6 is produced in the E0 stepping. Intel is the Core i7-980 and reached the Clarkdale models already in the 32-nm technology, which AMD will use until the next generation.

Compared to Intel's models do not have the AMD processor hyper threading. So he can distribute to the six cores six threads. A disadvantage of this must not be, since hyper threading utilizes only inactive areas of the processor. he new AMD processors can read: "Up to 50% more cores than previous AMD processors. True, this would read: At least 50% more cores, because AMD has produced all four, three, dual-and single-core models. 50% more performance will be achieved only if the application of the workload can also be divided accordingly