Multi-threaded performance: video-encoding, image editing, file compression
| Percentage faster/slower than Phenom II X6 1090T |
Phenom II X6 1055T |
Phenom II X4 965 BE |
Core i7 980X |
Core i7 930 |
Core i7 920 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - 9.97% | - 27.50% | + 63.61% | - 6.27% | - 8.57% |
When six cores come out to play, AMD's latest Phenoms are notably superior to those that came before them. The addition of two cores results in a 27.5 per cent performance boost over the Phenom II X4 965 BE.
What's impressive is that 7-zip puts the Phenom II X6 1090T slightly ahead of both Intel's Core i7 930 and Core i7 920.
| Percentage faster/slower than Phenom II X6 1090T |
Phenom II X6 1055T |
Phenom II X4 965 BE |
Core i7 980X |
Core i7 930 |
Core i7 920 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - 15.31% | - 40.79% | + 34.03% | - 14.68% | - 22.25% |
Making full use of each CPU's available cores, wPrime highlights that six is currently the magic number. The Phenom II X6 1090T is comfortably quicker than Intel's quad-core parts in this calculation benchmark, and second only to the beast that is the Core i7 980X.
| Percentage faster/slower than Phenom II X6 1090T |
Phenom II X6 1055T |
Phenom II X4 965 BE |
Core i7 980X |
Core i7 930 |
Core i7 920 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - 12.75% | - 39.84% | + 40.24% | - 2.59% | - 7.77% |
Converting 200 photographs from RAW (1.63GB) to JPEG (267MB) using Bibble tells a similar story. No surprises, a multi-threaded application benefits from the additional cores.
| Percentage faster/slower than Phenom II X6 1090T |
Phenom II X6 1055T |
Phenom II X4 965 BE |
Core i7 980X |
Core i7 930 |
Core i7 920 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - 8.63% | - 1.81% | + 18.68% | - 7.81% | - 12.50% |
The first pass of the media-encoding benchmark is lightly threaded, and raw clock speeds win out.
| Percentage faster/slower than Phenom II X6 1090T |
Phenom II X6 1055T |
Phenom II X4 965 BE |
Core i7 980X |
Core i7 930 |
Core i7 920 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - 11.21% | - 26.75% | + 51.10% | - 10.19% | - 15.44% |
The second pass ramps up the load across all available cores, and the hexa-core Phenoms are once again able to shine. It's not everyday you see a Phenom II out-doing a couple of similarly-priced Core i7s.
