AMD Phenom II X6 Black 1090T 

The Sandra Processor Multi-Media benchmark has been a long time favorite of ours to look at floating point performance on processors, so let's see how Intel's latest 32nm mobile processor does!

Of course, Deneb was essentially a 45nm respin of AMD's 65nm Barcelona chip.

Sony Vegas 9.0d was only running at 80% load across all 12 threads, but that was enough to give us a 22% performance boost over the Intel Core i7 975 processor.

We then take that file and output it as a Blu-ray disc using Sony Vegas 9.0d. The output is a 1920x1080 60i Blu-ray Disc ISO image.

When the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T processor was running at full load the multiplier jumped up to 16 and the overall clock frequency is now 3.21GHz, as you can see from the screen shot above.

The test system was run in dual-channel memory mode at 1600MHz with 9-9-9-24 1T memory timings.

In the x264 and Cinepack tests the 1090T really shines and bares comparison with Intel's lovely Core i7 920, which may have two fewer cores but has two threads per core, giving it effectively eight, plus a 2MB fatter L3 cache.

There's no extra over the four-core Phenom here, unlike Intel's 980X whose two extra cores come replete with extra L3.

Shut down or throttle back some core and you've more headroom for the remaining cores.

The game has a built-in benchmark that is very tough on video cards!

It's a wolf in sheep's clothing basically, if you don't see any synthetic benchmarks, you'll just say to yourself,"damn...this is fast.

Benchmark Results: Running the Sony Vegas 9.0d benchmark shows just how important a CPU is when it comes to creating video content.

For this game VSync was turned off, but Antialiasing was turned on and set to 8x for better image quality.

For example, in gaming we saw a little performance boost here and there, but nothing significant at the resolutions we actually play games on.

The game developers need to stop porting games over from consoles and walking away from them!