The single thread perf seems about the same as the Intel N100. It would be interesting to know the process node and the power envelope.
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The world wants to know how many PCI-E lanes it has.
And it will never be available stateside or in much of the west, because, China.
An actual article on it- https://chipsandcheese.com/p/zhaoxins-kx-7000
Spoiler: It's slower than AMD Bulldozer.
Loongson 3A is infinitely faster if you want a China-domestic-market CPU.
Nice. It'll be good for most of the world to not have to rely on an increasingly unstable US export market for cpus.
A 9800X3D gets ~820 single thread and ~8600 multithread. So its 41% the speed on single thread and 30% multithreaded. That is more than a decade out of date still a long way to go.
They're just entering a market owned by a few big players. One simply can't come out with a high end product out of nowhere. Maybe it's not even the goal
The multithreaded performance is comparable to a Ryzen 7 from a few years ago. It ain't bad at all. It all comes to price and power efficiency; and for many governments the lack of possible CIA backdoors is another plus.
Sure, it won't beat high-end CPUs from Intel/AMD, but a decade ago is somewhere between 4-6th gen of Core CPUs.
That's more than enough for an average user's Facebook machine (or WeChat probably in this case)
this used to be the market segment that cyrix used to fill and i hope that this doesn't end up the same way.
It's VIA, these chips are the modern Cyrix CPUs.
Unless you explicitly need x86, it's a bad part.
Loongson3A is much faster and cheaper.
If we're to compare this entry-level CPU clearly designed by a newcomer company and honed for one or two niches, to the current top-of-the-line, catch-all CPU backed by a brand that has had decades in the processor game, then yeah obviously it's not going to fare well. There's still some merit to this type of CPU (like say, if the price is right) and it could pave the way for better iterations.
We don't make the same comparison for the quality & efficiency of healthcare in the brands' respective countries, now do we? :)
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It's VIA, they're been around since the dawn of time.
Does it matter much, x86/x64 is on its way out. Everyone has to jump on the ARM train or get left behind.
I expect everyone will be jumping on RISCV which is an open architecture. China is already developing a high performance architecture based on this https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
I imagine x86 is being developed as an intermittent compatibility measure to support current tech stack in case supplies from the US are cut off.
I tend to agree. But in the same way as hard drives have been on the way out for like a decade now, and I'd expect them to still have use cases decades in the future.

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