AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (Thuban) benchmarked AND reviewed!

[quest_for_silence]

Translated from chinese (I guess).

And a good "prime" from the reliable Anandtech.

Regards,
Luca

[ronnylov]

Anandtech seems to measure too high power consumption at idle.

Here we got other results:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... html#sect0

[AuraAllan]

More reviews:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/3251/a ... index.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd ... ,2613.html

http://www.guru3d.com/article/phenom-ii ... 0t-review/

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews ... _x6_1090t/

http://www.techspot.com/review/269-amd- ... and-1055T/

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24332

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/ha ... eview.html

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2 ... -edition/1

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,7461 ... t/Reviews/

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

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews.php?reviewid=964

http://www.pureoverclock.com/article966.html

http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//inde ... 1&Itemid=1

[dhanson865]

Anandtech seems to measure too high power consumption at idle.

Here we got other results:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... html#sect0

Thanks for linking to the review. There seems to be a problem with the article layout though.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 90t_2.html has no page links

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 90t_3.html has links for 10 pages

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 90t_4.html has links for the first 3 pages.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 90t_5.html has links for 4 pages

and so on.

Is there a link for a single page view?

Fixed now 11 pages.

[ryboto]

Tigerdirect has a $50 MIR on these, and if you use their financing you get an additional $20 off on orders over $100. Plus! if you use bing, you can get bing cashback, which saves something close to $90 total...pretty fricken cheap.

[dhanson865]

Tigerdirect has a $50 MIR on these, and if you use their financing you get an additional $20 off on orders over $100. Plus! if you use bing, you can get bing cashback, which saves something close to $90 total...pretty fricken cheap.

Nice if you do enough multitasking or multithreaded stuff that you need 6 cores. Myself I'm waiting to see the price on the quad core "Zosma" Phenom II X4 960T.

And what happens to the price of a X4 925 if the x6 is that cheap?

[Jay_S]

Using Anandtech's "performance summary" benchmark data and power consumption numbers, and Newegg's retail pricing for the two Intel CPU's:

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                        Price      TDP     Idle     Load     Cinebench R10     3dsmax r9     x264 HD      Left 4 Dead
                                                             (Multi-thrd)                    2nd Pass
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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T   $285     125W    122.5W    201W         18526           13.7        28.5 fps      127.2 fps
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T   $199     125W                           16268           12.7        25.1 fps      111.5 fps
Intel Core i7 860        $280      95W     83.4W    180W         16598           15.0        26.8 fps      131.0 fps
Intel Core i5 750        $200      95W     85.4W    184W         14142           13.4        21.0 fps      130.0 fps

The load power consumption numbers were measured using x264 to load the CPU. We can calculate performance per watt and $$:

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                        Price     Load     x264 HD     fps/W      fps/$
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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T   $285     201W     28.5 fps    0.1418     0.100
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T   $199              25.1 fps               0.126
Intel Core i7 860        $280     180W     26.8 fps    0.1489     0.096
Intel Core i5 750        $200     184W     21.0 fps    0.1141     0.105
AMD Athlon X4 620         $98     175W     15.4 fps    0.0880     0.157 

Strange that the load power measured is higher for the 750 than the 860. Wonder why Anand didn't measure the PII x6 1055T power consumption. It looks like a terrific bang-for-buck encoding processor.

[EDIT] Added Athlon x4 620 data from Anandtech's review. The test setup is similar to the PII x6 review's test setup. The Athlon x4 620 offer better price/performance in this application, but performance per watt suffers and I wouldn't give up the 1055T's fps advantage. There are approximately 86,281 frames of 23.967fps video per hour. The 1055T finishes in 57.3 minutes, where the x4 620 finishes in 93.4 minutes. This is a significant difference, and may be important to those of us working with HD video.

Currently Newegg is charging a slight premium for the hexacore Phenoms.
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T is currently $310 @ Newegg.
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T is currently $210 @ Newegg.

[ryboto]

Lostcircuits found the load power consumption of the 1090(i think) to be 82W. Pretty impressive.

[Jay_S]

Lostcircuits found the load power consumption of the 1090(i think) to be 82W. Pretty impressive.

That's correct. That's for the CPU on its own, according to their methodology. Their methodology is very detailed and sounds reasonable to me - any EE's out there who can verify the validity of their measurement methods?

[~El~Jefe~]

Yeah, anandtech has very high draws and idles compared to

Hexus. I like hexus the best normally. I have seen much more accurate recordings of ATI and nvidia cards there. I am assuming the same goes for CPU's.

Hexus actually has the AMD 1090T as BETTER performance per watt than Intel offerings.

At least it can be considered not much of a difference = awesome for the price finally.

[shleepy]

I am genuinely impressed. I didn't think I'd see the day when an AMD processor appealed to me more than an Intel one ever again.

ryboto - you think that PicoPSU I got from you could handle one of these bad boys (undervolted and maybe with a couple cores locked)?

[ryboto]

I am genuinely impressed. I didn't think I'd see the day when an AMD processor appealed to me more than an Intel one ever again.

ryboto - you think that PicoPSU I got from you could handle one of these bad boys (undervolted and maybe with a couple cores locked)?

Hmm...might be pushing it, though, at stock speeds, they don't draw that much. I'd wait until there's a 95W revision, since I know it's capable of running a Q9400 at 3.0ghz, which has a 95W TDP. This is assuming you'd also be using a video card...without the card, I'm sure the setup you bought from me would work just fine.