AMD Phenom II X6 1055T and 1090T BE

Introduction

Almost to the day one year ago, AMD introduced the Phenom X4 955 in the package probably the best desktop processor, the company with the green logo on the market. The period up to now have been used for many improvements. Not only the improved performance, but also addressed the problem child, compared to the competition is always something higher power consumption. The result is before you today: the AMD Phenom Black Edition II X6 1090T. In desktop processors with six cores, although only one second, but it will offer them the first time at a price below 300, respectively, even under 200 €. Whether the models Phenom worth X6 1090T Black Edition 3.2 GHz and the small offshoot 1055T 2.8 GHz compared to the previous quad-core models, we will examine in detail. We take a look at separately, of course, the new Turbo mode by AMD, which allows for applications that support fewer seeds, a speed boost of up to 500 MHz more clock.


Overview

The new AMD processor, code-named "Thuban" is a giant. On a desktop CPUs for the current time record-breaking area of 346 mm ² houses the manufacturer (probably) 904 million transistors. Also, the repeated demand advanced AMD is not out with accurate information. Yes, the six-core processor is based on the "Istanbul" server processor, but has experienced various optimizations, says the company. But whether it directly "Lisbon" is, would not confirm it. Likewise, it makes the number of transistors officially a secret. The area consists of six cores, each with 512 KB L2 cache, which a shared L3 cache of 6MB in size as fast as the latch to the side. In principle, so it's a quad-core processor of the type II Phenom X4, which was "simply" added two cores including L2 cache.