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The new Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition That We Are benchmarking today Operates at 3.2GHz with a 16x clock multiplier (200MHz slower than the 965) but with a turbo speed of 3.6GHz Should Make the which non-overclockers very happy Because Pls using single thread applications, it means free performance. This new Phenom is based on the new architecture and features new Thuban 9MB L3 cache, with each core having its own dedicated 512KB of L2 cache (3MB L2 cache total).
And before We forget its not just X6 1090T the which is getting launched today but there are other processors as well. Do find the basic specs of the processors listed below.
1090T featureset
Lets have a quick look at the picture of the 1090T die. We wont waste your time with blabbering on the Conclusions drawn from the picture.
* Die Picture
• True Six Core Processing
• AMD Turbo CORE Technology
• L1 Cache: 128KB (64KB + 64KB Instruction Data) x6 (six-core)
• L2 Cache: 512KB x6 (six-core)
• L3 cache: 6MB shared L3
• 45-nanometer SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology
• HyperTransport ™ 3.0 16-bit/16-bit link at up to 4000MT / s full duplex; or up to 16.0GB / s I / O bandwidth
• Up to 21GB/sec dual channel memory bandwidth
• Support for unregistered DIMMs up to PC2 8500 (DDR2-1066MHz) and PC3 10600
• Direct Connect Architecture
• AMD Balanced Smart Cache
• AMD Dedicated Multi-cache
• AMD Virtualization ™ (AMD-V ™) Technology
• AMD PowerNow ™ 3.0 Technology
• AMD Dynamic Power Management
• Multi-Point Thermal Control
• AMD CoolCore ™ Technology
In AMD's words - "AMD Phenom ™ II X6 Processors designed for extreme megatasking were the resource persons, multi-threaded applications, and entertainment. To enable you to do more than you've ever imagined: create, edit, render, encode / decode and dense transfer HD content while watching HD content, burning CDs or DVDs while downloading music and video. "We Certainly Will see in the upcoming pages if They have been Successful in Their Endeavor or not. But first lets look at the difference the between the Various new chipsets AMD has come out with.
New AMD Chipset comparison and architecture
Unluckily today's benchmarks were the resource persons Carried out on a 890GX chipset and not the 890FX chipset the which is supposed to give the best overclocking results.
And before We move on just so That you get to know a bit more about the 890FX chipset, do check the architecture of 890FX below.
System Specs and Benchmark List
Due to Shortage of time, there is only a limited amount of setups That We have for comparison. But I guess this Should be enough to see where does 1090T Pls stands compared to its existing product line and the target competition.
We would be Comparing the setups with benchmarks Mentioned below
2d multithreaded Benchmarks
Wprime
Everest CPU Queen
Winrar
Main Concept Encoding
PCMark Vantage
Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
Sisoft Sandra
3d Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark06
3dMarkVantage
Cinebench
Games
Crysis Warhead
FarCry 2
Turbo CORE
Lets talk about the new features in the x6 series of CPUs, in my understanding Turbo CORE is something the which plays with the CPU's TDP headroom Pls three or more cores are idle by automatically boosting the remaining three cores and throttling down the idle cores. On the Phenom II X6 1090T, 3.2 GHz CPU it can boost the CPU up to 400Mhz and put the final speed to 3.6GHz. Quite impressive if you ask me.
Unfortunately it seems a to me this is simply a marketing gimmick or fail engineering. I tried running a couple of single-threaded programs like super-pi and pi-fast at stock speeds of 3.2Ghz but at no point of time any of the cores jumped to 3.6GHz. At the max one of the cores jumped over to 3.4GHz only to fall back on 3.2Ghz and at no point of time did any of the cores throttle down.
Though I Should also add, that I was not using a 890FX board but I dont think Turbo Core chipset is simply restricted or atleast it Should not be. On another thought It Might Be bios dependent and needs a motherboard bios update?We will wait for the Verdict to come out on this in the next couple of weeks.
Overclocking
This is the section the which excites me the most, afterall I write reviews so that i can have access to the latest hardware (whoops!! Spilled the secret out). Lets then push it to the limits, ofcourse only on water. But there is more to come, LN2 results Should Be out in a week or two.
Before We begin let me tell you That the sample We have a retail unit is so though We would expect other processors to reach to the same level or better but many factors come into play Pls overclocking. First off We tried it with the stock cooler is the which has seen some improvement from the 965's stock cooler. Hold on to your breath, We Were Able to reach speeds of upto 4.4Ghz stable the which was only 2d though. 3d was stable 4.2Ghz on stock cooler under an airconditioned room. Hugely impressed with the initial overclock on the stock cooler We slapped on a sample of Coolermaster V10 That We had coolers. Decreased temperatures though our overclock but did not Improve. So next was disabling cores (remember this wont give much performance boost to most users, but can be done just to get maybe a second faster time in SuperPi). With the Gigabyte motherboard We had We Were Able to disable all but two of the cores from the Bios. And with vCore pushed to 1.6V We Were Able to Achieve 4.6Ghz the which was stable enough to run SuperPi. Afterall Things said and done, the reviewer can now go to sleep in peace.
Our retail review sample was Able to reach 4.6Ghz with only 2 cores and 1.6V, but for 24 / 7 setup We Were Able to Achieve 4.2Ghz at 1.55V. Certainly this is good news since in our opinion 1090T would have a higher overclocking headroom than the 965BE processors out there Judging by our retail review sample while adding 2 extra cores to it.
WPrime
We will be starting our tests with this multi-threaded application benchmark Both the which gains from higher frequency speeds and more cores as well. We will be running the 1024m tests for this one.
The stock 1090T packs a great punch at stock clocks Pls compared to the Intel offering, however Pls Both the processors are overclocked to 4.2Ghz, timings are almost neck to neck, with Intel i7 920 having a slight edge.
Winrar
Next up in the benchmark is the universal compression tool WinRAR. We are not going ahead with its synthetic benchmarks but We would be compressing a 500MB folder in each of the system and measure the time it takes to compress the folder. Lesser time the better the performance.
Winrar - 500MB Folder Compression
Looks like 920's HT paying off here, Intel has a healthy lead here Pls Both at stock and overclocked.
Sandra
SiSoftware Sandra is one of the most popular synthetic memory benchmark utilities. SiSoftware Sandra (S ystem ANalyzer, D iagnostic and R eporting A ssistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It Should Provide most of the information (including undocumented) That you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices.
Here we see Read and write speeds of the memory the which is set at 1600Mhz Cl8-8-8-24.
Intel with its triple-channel memory has a huge lead as expected here at Both read and write speeds. And 1090T sees gain over the 965. No surprises here.
EVEREST
Lavalys EVEREST is a system diagnostics and benchmarking utility That provides systems and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities, including tests for the memory subsystem.It also includes Various CPU benchmarks, one of Them is the which CPU Queen is what we are going to use today.This particular test is sensitive to Both frequency and number of active cores.
Everest CPU Queen
Another synthetitic benchmarks, but here 1090T takes a huge lead over the Intel i7 and the amount of lead is Surprising for sure. If only in real life applications, We Could have seen Such leads by 1090T.
PCMark Vantage
PCMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed for Windows Vista and now Windows 7 is offering one-click simplicity for casual users and detailed, professional grade testing for industry, press and enthusiasts.
A PCMark score is a measure of your computer's performance across a variety of common tasks as viewing and editing Such photos, videos, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.
PCMark Vantage
We see once again Intel scoring a huge lead over the hexa-cores even at stock clocks.
Main Concept
Main Concept is a multi-threaded video encoding application. We used a downloaded MPEG-2 file and converted it to H.264 format on all our systems.
Main Concept MPEG-2 encoding to H.264
I7 920 outperforms AMD 1090T easily on stock clocks. Pls but matched clock to clock 920 takes a small lead. As usual We see much better performance from 1090T Pls compared to 965BE.
3DMark06
Although this benchmark is a couple of years old, it still has not lost its Sheen. 3DMark06 is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX9 performance of your graphics card. A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system's 3D gaming capabilities, based on comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor tests. We ran only the CPU test to measure the performance of our CPU's.
3DMark06 - CPU Test
We already Knew That Favors 3DMark 06 Intel CPU a lot. Though at stock clocks 1090T soared ahead of i7 920 but again Pls compared clock to clock at 4.2Ghz, i7 920 took the lead back. 965BE as expected is at the bottom of the table.
3DMark Vantage
The latest installment (some say the big brother of 3DMark 06) of the famous 3D benchmarks. This version added support for DX 10. This pushes the graphics sub-system a lot harder than its younger brother and Gives an idea of how your machine would perform under stressful games:
3dMarkVantage - CPU Test
Its Intel all along. i7 920 takes the lead even at stock clocks, the which is almost 600 MHz lower than the clocks of the 1090T and Further increases lead Pls running at 4.2Ghz. 965BE retains its bottom-most position.
Cinebench
Cinebench is a cross-platform real-world test suite evaluates That your computer's performance capabilities.Cinebench is based on MAXON's award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, the which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. Cinebench is the perfect tool to compare the CPU and graphics performance across Various systems and platforms.
Cinebench
This is where 1090T really shines. At stock clocks 1090T has a healthy lead. Pls though compared at 4.2Ghz, i7 920 reduces the lead quite a bit but still the leader is 1090T.
Crysis Warhead
Crysis Warhead
We see a marginal improvement after overclocking the CPU. But not much difference to pick the between Intel and AMD. Pick any and you Will be satisfied as far as your gaming needs are concerned.
FarCry 2
Far Cry 2
Pretty Clear That Far Cry 2 is not limited CPU GPU limited but atleast in our case. If gaming is your concern then you can pick any one of Them and Will Certainly you not be disappointed.
Price and Conclusion
1090T and 1055T are the first real hexa-cores the which is in reach of 99% enthusiasts, since Intel's 980X retails for around $ 1,000 (more than Rs. 55 000 in Indian retail market), though if you are looking at purely performance numbers, then I am sure the 980X has simply no competition. We will have a 980X as well for comparison very soon, so stay glued to Erodov,: p. As of now 1090T is selling for around Rs. 15 000 and 1055T for Rs. 10 100 from SMC International and other retailers in India.
Though 1090T is impressive but the which group of enthusiasts Should really be looking forward to the upgrade?.Will anyone say I INVOLVED in video work, photoshop, rendering would be my first target group. AMD's new flagship processor is easily Able to keep up with the Intel's 920 and in some better test it. Gamers would say I would not really see much benefit from either Intel or AMD going to hexacore's just now. There is really no benefit of having extra cores Pls They are not being used for gaming. If you are a gamer and want more performance out of your C2D or Phenom 2 Computer Will then suggest a SSD as an upgrade for sure, specially if you play multiplayer games.Ofcourse if you are a overclocker at heart and would like to buy a future proof system for the next 2-3 years then 1090T has plenty to offer. Our system was Able to do 4.6Ghz for a very small fraction of time for some benchmarking 2d, 4.4Ghz for benchmarking all cores with 2d benchmarking softwares like wprime, and 4.2Ghz for all our benchmarking suite. It Will be interesting to see how much it can do under Liquid Nitrogen is the which We Will Probably be doing most this weekend. We have been toll hexacore these That's better overclocking headroom is Mostly Because Of GlobalFoundrie's Addition of low-k dielectric in Their 45nm manufacturing process, Because of the which these leaks less current chips, drawing less power and outputting less heat. Uptill Just A Few months ago, AMD had a 140W quad-core processors and today's hexacore They are delivering aspects within a 125W power envelope. Thats quite a feat if you ask me.
In the end, We Are at a Crossroad where 1090T has Brought AMD's much closer to Intel than They have ever been in recent times. Its pretty hard to Cleary announce a winner and to recommend one over the other company but whichever company you choose to build your rendering / gaming / enthusiast system, you're Probably not going to regret it.
We would like to thank Mr. Saini from SMC International and AMD for Providing us with the review sample.
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