AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6-Core Processor Review

For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to 800x600, and reduce all of the in-game graphical options to their minimum values to isolate CPU and memory performance as much as possible.  However, the in-game effects, which control the level of detail for the games' physics engines and particle systems, are left at their maximum values, since these actually do place some load on the CPU rather than GPU.

The new 6-Core Phenom II X6 1090T performed right on-par with the Phenom II X4 965 in our low-res gaming tests, which is to say it performed well, but not quite as well as Intel's offerings.