Yesterday, August 30, employees of the Chinese company Loongson, which designs and manufactures its own desktop processors, officially announced that the new 3A6000 chip (from the new generation line) managed to increase single-core performance by 68% compared to the previous generation of chips. As a result, according to Loongson specialists, this processor is quite capable of competing with AMD Zen 3 and Intel Tiger Lake models, which is certainly a huge achievement for the Chinese manufacturer, which only enthusiasts knew about five years ago.
It is worth recalling that last year, Loongson introduced the world to its latest 3A5000 processor, which worked on four cores based on the 64-bit GS464V microarchitecture. Loongson engineers developed this architecture on their own, it is not a licensed development of Western giants, which made the 3A5000 with DDR4 support and a built-in encryption module a rather interesting solution for the local market. But the 3A6000 is built on a completely new microarchitecture, thanks to which the processor managed to catch up with AMD Zen 3 chips and 11th generation Intel Core chips in performance.
And if earlier the cores of Chinese processors clearly suffered, yielding to the developments of Intel and AMD, then the new microarchitecture eliminates this problem – the 3A6000 has 68% higher performance in single-core mode than the 3A5000, in the case of floating point calculations, and 37% performance is better with fixed-point operations. This achievement is actually very important for the Chinese processor industry – AMD Zen 4 has just been introduced, and the 3A6000 is already catching up with AMD Zen 3 in terms of performance, albeit only in benchmarks so far. Yes, and Intel Tiger Lake is the penultimate generation from the “blue team” at the moment.
In addition, representatives of Loongson said that they do not plan to stop there. Already at the beginning of 2023, the manufacturer plans to release 16-core 3C6000 processors, which will have even higher performance (in multi-core tests). In the middle of 2023, a 32-core processor on the same microarchitecture should be released to the market, and the company should show the line with the 7000 index in 2024. And if Loongson works just as hard, then in two or three years it may well overtake Intel and AMD.
Source: Trash Box
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