A big performance jump for the Chinese Loongson processor

With the new model 3A6000, the local processor manufacturer in China, Loongson, has achieved a big step in the performance league compared to the previous model 3A5000. Wccftech reports. Chinese site My Drivers has taken over the circuit and is running a battery test in which it compares it to Intel’s Core i3-10100 and AMD’s Ryzen 3 3100.

Intel’s 10th generation and AMD’s Zen 2 architecture aren’t the newest from either company, but not long ago Loongson’s circuits were helplessly slow compared to any reasonably modern processor from either company. With the 3A6000, Loongson was able to achieve a design that had more instructions per clock cycle than the two circuits My Drivers compared.

The maximum clock frequency of the Loongson 3A6000 is 2.5 GHz, but although the i3-10100 runs at 4.0 GHz and the Ryzen 3 3100 at 3.9 GHz, the Chinese processor gets results almost as high in benchmark tests as the SPEC CPU and Unixbench, with up to twice the performance of the 3A5000.

This is all about pure CPU performance. In other areas, Longson still has a long way to go. When My Driver tests video playback, the 3A6000 can only handle 4K video at 30 fps, and at 60 it starts to stutter. Support for running games on the processor is also limited, but it works with at least some titles like World of Warcraft and the latest Tomb Raider games.

Loongson plans to release more circuits with the same architecture and more CPU cores: 3B6000 with 8 cores, 3C6000 with 16 cores, and 3D6000 with 32 cores.