AMD announced New AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (6 cores) is clocked at 3.2GHz with 9MB of cache and can be boosted with TurboCore to 3.7GHz. This chip will have thermal design power rating of 125W. AMD has also introduced new microprocessors in six-core, quad-core and dual-core models.
The 1075T 3.0 Ghz, priced at $245, can turbo up to 3.5GHz if three or fewer cores are in use. You get a 6MB L3 and a 3MB L2 (512KB per core). The Phenom II X6 1075T has no competitively priced answer from Intel. The Core i7 860 is priced at $284, while the Core i5 760 will set you back $205. The default clock speed of the 1075T should bring it close to the Core i5 760 in many tasks. Intel’s cores get better performance per clock, but not that much better. Single threaded performance and power consumption are both better with the Core i5, but the rest all falls in AMD’s way.
