China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks

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China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks (www.tomshardware.com)

They must have stolen old designs then.

Archive: https://archive.today/WHYU2

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>It's rare to find Loongson CPUs outside of China, but a Linux reviewer has managed to get one of the CPU manufacturer's 12-core chips for testing. Phoronix reviewed Loongson's 12-core 3B6000 processor in a plethora of Linux-based benchmarks. Despite its high core count, Phoronix's benchmark numbers revealed that the chip can't even approach the performance of modern Western six-core chips like the Ryzen 5 9600X.

They must have stolen old designs then. Archive: https://archive.today/WHYU2 From the post: >>It's rare to find Loongson CPUs outside of China, but a Linux reviewer has managed to get one of the CPU manufacturer's 12-core chips for testing. Phoronix reviewed Loongson's 12-core 3B6000 processor in a plethora of Linux-based benchmarks. Despite its high core count, Phoronix's benchmark numbers revealed that the chip can't even approach the performance of modern Western six-core chips like the Ryzen 5 9600X.

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Ok that might be the case. It reminds me of the wifi chip that AI built, it was nothing like human design, humans were like, da fuk, how's that gonna even work. Then they tested and it was faster with less errors. Baffled they were.

So take that and just start with a blank slate design, tell AI "the goal is this, go achieve"

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