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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ehh. A lot of stuff from China looks and acts like it is spec... Then you actually use it and it's a piece of shit or scam. I will always be suspicious of anything from China.

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quality control is an issue everywhere

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