First of all, the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, by packing in more cores and more cache, outruns the previous generation AMD flagship. Secondly, AMD achieved this feat without incurring significant TDP increase despite staying on 45nm lithography. In our measurements, changing from the Phenom II X4 955 to the Phenom II X6 1090T on the Asus Crosshair IV setup raised total loaded system consumption by ~15W, at the same time reducing idle system consumption by ~11W. Thirdly, the Phenom II X6 1090T is a plug-and-play affair for AM3 mainboards, requiring at best, a BIOS update on the mainboard it sits in. 

You could call the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T a CPU of few vices; its only bad habit being its inability to keep up with similarly priced competition from Intel when running popular, less threaded applications. It also exhibits sub-par performance in the few 3D games we used for this review. Does this make the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T a terrible product? Not really.

 

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