Gaming and power-draw
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - 7.90% | + 1.19% | + 44.75% | + 25.20% | + 21.58% |
Additional cores do little to aid gaming performance in Far Cry 2. A better multi-threaded title may paint a different picture, but PC games designed to fully utilise all available CPU cores remain few and far between. Intel's architecture clearly has the edge in this title.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - 0.59% | + 0.40% | + 1.11% | - 1.18% | - 1.30% |
More to the point, when the GPU becomes the limiting factor, there's little to choose between dual, quad or hexa-core CPUs.
| Percentage better/worse than Phenom II X6 1090T |
Phenom II X6 1055T |
Phenom II X4 965 BE |
Core i7 980X |
Core i7 930 |
Core i7 920 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| + 1.20% | 0.00% | - 51.81% | - 39.76% | - 39.76% |
You might call the Phenom II X6 1090T an X4 965 BE with two extras cores and a little extra L2 cache. Nonetheless, AMD does well to keep idle power draw practically identical.
| Percentage better/worse than Phenom II X6 1090T |
Phenom II X6 1055T |
Phenom II X4 965 BE |
Core i7 980X |
Core i7 930 |
Core i7 920 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| + 3.85% | 0.00% | - 33.52% | - 13.74% | - 12.64% |
The X6 1090T and X4 965 BE are identical under load, too. Intel's high-end platforms are clearly the hungrier option.
