SYSMark 2007 Performance

Our journey starts with SYSMark 2007, the only all-encompassing performance suite in our review today. The idea here is simple: one benchmark to indicate the overall performance of your machine.

SYSMark really taxes two cores most of the time, giving the edge to Lynnfield and its aggressive turbo modes. Lightly threaded or mixed workloads won't do so well on the Phenom II X6.

SYSMark 2007 - Overall

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Performance

To measure performance under Photoshop CS4 we turn to the Retouch Artists’ Speed Test. The test does basic photo editing; there are a couple of color space conversions, many layer creations, color curve adjustment, image and canvas size adjustment, unsharp mask, and finally a gaussian blur performed on the entire image.

The whole process is timed and thanks to the use of Intel's X25-M SSD as our test bed hard drive, performance is far more predictable than back when we used to test on mechanical disks.

Time is reported in seconds and the lower numbers mean better performance. The test is multithreaded and can hit all four cores in a quad-core machine.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Retouch Artists Speed Test

Performance here is good, but even Photoshop doesn't make consistent enough use of all six cores to really give the Phenom II X6 the edge it needs here. It's faster than the Phenom II X4, but not faster than the Core i5 750.

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  • kenupcmac - Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - link

    so now amd x6 is better for 3dmax compare to intel i7?
  • Wabid Wabit - Tuesday, December 28, 2010 - link

    Please check the site out, it is not a Intel Fanboy site or a AMD Fanboy site, but has the info you need, this page was an old post but the site has the info from then and now and it looks like - wait for it - wait for it - Intel just plain kicks ass - and all us Computer Geeks know that.

    http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
  • azizul.hoque - Monday, January 17, 2011 - link

    Hi,
    Can I use this processor for 3D studio MAX?
  • tipoo - Saturday, May 7, 2011 - link

    Of course you can use it.
  • superccs - Saturday, June 11, 2011 - link

    I have disabled the middle 2 cores on my 1055T (240Mhz FSB auto voltage, CnQ, and Turbo enabled) and it works quite well at bringing down temps when gaming. When turbo core is active the voltage of all cores goes up to 1.475, so disabling the cores saves power and temps.

    This works well in the summer, during the winter all heaters are enabled.
  • rustamveer - Friday, July 29, 2011 - link

    sir i wanted to upgrade my pc with amd phenom2 1090t and i' m new to amd processors.
    but sir please suggest me which motherboard i will choose i don't know much abt motherboard????
    please also tell me the price rate in india of phenom2 1090t and motherboard????????
    i will be very thankful to you....waiting for you reply!!!!!!!
  • archangel2003 - Saturday, February 4, 2012 - link

    Sounds a lot like the cycle magazines touting one bike having 1.5 HP more than the other, but really, how much riding is done nearly bouncing off the rev limiter?

    Same thing with these chips.
    How often are you going to experience the slight difference between these top of the line "at it's limits" Intel chip compared to the AMD at 1/3 the price?

    I think the point of the article was that the huge cost savings of an AMD offsets the slight difference in performance.

    BTW, all my computers have Intel only because that ia what they had in them, and if in the future I needed to make a choice, I would need better info like this article offeres.

    I could have went with the AMD 6 core for less than my i7 IntelQuad core cost!
  • Somebody23 - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link

    I have managed to push my 1090T to 4.2ghz all cores. it was mostly stable on benchmark.

    Downgraded 100mhz to 4.1ghz. It's stable at 4.1ghz computer doesnt bluescreen in 3 hours stability test.

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