Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarked, Only Delivers a Third of AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Performance
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At the time when the United States began banning the purchase of AI chips and machinery from China, we believed that the country was going to be totally out of date. Imagine that in Spain you couldn’t buy Intel, NVIDIA and AMD processors and graphics, only in the case of China if you had a wild card that was to use your own chips with the big downside that they were very slow and old. China has already been creating processors and even graphics …
Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarked, Only Delivers a Third of AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Performance
Chinese company Loongson has been developing custom processors based on the LoongArch instruction set, a new design initiated in 2020. Phoronix reviewed the company's 3B6000 processor, which has 12 cores supporting simultaneous multithreading (SMT2), resulting in 24 threads. The platform is compatible with DDR4 memory, with a controller targeting speeds up to 3,200 MT/s and ECC support, and the CPU runs at 2.4/2.5 GHz base frequency. In testing,…
The Phoronix colleagues had the opportunity to test a Loongson 3B6000 with twelve cores.
Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks: How China's LoongArch CPU Compares To AMD Zen 5, Intel Arrow Lake & Raspberry Pi 5 Review
Recently I finally got my hands on a LoongArch processor, the ISA developed by China's Loongson Technology as an evolution from their earlier use of the MIPS64 ISA and inspired by RISC-V and other modern ISAs. The Loongson-3B6000 features 12 cores / 24 threads with dual channel DDR4 ECC memory support. Here is a look at how that latest-generation LoongArch desktop processor compares to the current generation AMD Zen 5 and Intel Arrow Lake deskto…
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