Anandtech: AMD's Six-Core Phenom II X6 1090T & 1055T Reviewed

**FEED** · 04-27-10, 12:19 AM

AMD's Six-Core Phenom II X6 1090T & 1055T Reviewed

AMD's Phenom II X6 is here based on the brand new Thuban core. Boasting Turbo Core support and nearly 1 billion transistors, AMD is willing to sell you six of its finest cores for under $300. The price drops to under $200 if you're willing to deal with a 2.8GHz clock speed.

AMD is continuing its strategy of selling you more cores than Intel at the same price. With the Phenom II X6, AMD is going after Intel's Lynnfield CPUs - primarily the Core i5 750 and Core i7 860. In our tests we found that the Phenom II X6 excels (as expected) at heavily threaded applications, while lightly threaded apps or mixed workloads generally favor Intel's quad-core chips. It's the expected outcome we've been seeing for the past few months here - if you need lots of threads below $300, go AMD otherwise go Intel.

Read on to get the full story on AMD's Phenom II X6.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/a...1055t-reviewed

**Spuz36** · 04-27-10, 06:23 PM

Saw this on digg. Cool beans! May have to make my new desktop AMD. At least it will add the daily dose of competition for us fair consumers.

**Ruukil** · 04-27-10, 09:12 PM

Most kickass CPU for the buck I assume?

**Kanati** · 04-27-10, 10:02 PM

I had high hopes for this iteration but I can get an i7 930 for the same price and get more performance. Guess I'll stick with Intel this next upgrade cycle. Maybe next time.

**QuickLightning** · 04-27-10, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by Kanati8869

I had high hopes for this iteration but I can get an i7 930 for the same price and get more performance. Guess I'll stick with Intel this next upgrade cycle. Maybe next time.

**CivilWars** · 04-27-10, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

Originally Posted by Kanati8869

I had high hopes for this iteration but I can get an i7 930 for the same price and get more performance. Guess I'll stick with Intel this next upgrade cycle. Maybe next time.

I loled.

**DaKillerFox** · 04-28-10, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by Kanati8869

I had high hopes for this iteration but I can get an i7 930 for the same price and get more performance. Guess I'll stick with Intel this next upgrade cycle. Maybe next time.

Where can you get an i7 930 for this same price? The closest intel CPU is the i5 650 for around $200. If you can get the i7 cheaper, I would like to know where?