Chinese CPU might match Zen3 IPC

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Loongson Begins to Enable CPUs That Could Rival AMD and Intel Offerings

Loongson's posted the first Linux patches for its LS 3A6000-series processors

www.tomshardware.com

Take this with a spoon of salt of course and also consider that Longsoon has a 14nm node at best so it does not mean it will match Zen3 performance.
That said, chinese companies are trying to circumvent node limitations by heavily investing in chiplets and heterogeneous architecture, which means they might find a way to get similar capabilities in a more distributed system (maybe not for gaming but it's not their focus TBH) at the likely price of higher system power consumption.

In the short term this means very little for consumers, in a few years we might see something cost effective emerge though. Imagine What you expect from a CPU or a GPU split between several components, maybe at 2x the current power consumption but at half the price and with the promise of more modular upgrade capabilities, would you go for it?

 

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How many of these articles about the upcoming Chinese/Russian CPU/GPU that are going to match Intel/AMD/Nvidia do we see every year?

I'll believe them when I actually see a product and independent reviews.

Zhaoxin/Longsoon is one of the very few players that had at least one product reviewed in western press (spoiler: it wasn't competitive), which is why I consider them interesting.

 

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It’s interesting, but if not vastly different from the 5000, I can’t see it getting anywhere near to Intel or AMD.

Loongson’s 3A5000: China’s Best Shot?

We at Chips and Cheese have covered two Chinese CPU architectures: Zhaoxin’s x86 compatible Lujiazui architecture found in the KX-6000 series of CPUs and Phytium’s ARM compatible FT663 architecture found in the D2000 series of CPUs. Zhaoxin was founded in 2013 as a joint venture between VIA and...

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Honestly I don't expect them to get anything better than Zen1 performance, if that.
The point of China is making something that they can be self sufficient with, even if it means being 5 years behind.

 

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Apparently this is not even x86/ARM/RISC-V, they're using their own instruction set called "LoongArch", software support is going to be small, and trying to do a direct comparison to other CPUs is going to be hard.

Even if IPC is Zen 3 level their previous CPUs had rather low clocks and more power usage compared to Intel/AMD, so I don't expect overall performance to even be close.

Like I said, Zen 1 equivalent at best.

 

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Gentlemen, as lovely as this discussion might be, it's way off topic.