AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6-Core Processor Review

Name: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6-Core Processor Review - Page 11
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 12:01 AM EDT

3DMark06 and Vantage CPU Tests

3DMark06's built-in CPU test is a multi-threaded DirectX gaming metric that's useful for comparing relative performance between similarly equipped systems. This test consists of two different 3D scenes that are processed with a software renderer that is dependent on the host CPU's performance. Calculations that are normally reserved for your 3D accelerator are instead sent to the CPU for processing and rendering. The frame-rate generated in each test is used to determine the final score.

Futuremark 3DMark06

Synthetic DirectX Gaming

The trend we've seen up to this point continued in the 3DMark06 CPU benchmark, where the new Phenom II X6 1090T finished in between the Core i7 870 and i7 975, but well ahead of the Phenom II X4 965.

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage

Synthetic DirectX Gaming

3DMark Vantage's CPU Test 2 is a multi-threaded test designed for comparing relative game physics processing performance between systems. This test consists of a single scene that features an air race of sorts, with a complex configuration of gates. There are aircraft in the test that trail smoke and collide with various cloth and soft-body obstacles, each other, and the ground. The smoke spreads, and reacts to the planes as they pass through it as well and all of this is calculated on the host CPU.

The new Phenom II X6 1090T fared somewhat worse in the 3DMark Vantage CPU Test 2. Here, AMD's new 6-core just missed the mark set but the Core i7 870, but it was much faster than the Phenom II X4 965.