News Chinese Hygon 16-core chip trades blows with AMD Threadripper 1950X in Geekbench — Chinese chipmaker continues to leverage AMD's Zen 1 architecture

[Admin]

A new 16-core processor "Hygon C86-4G" has been tested in Geekbench but likely still uses AMD's aging Zen 1 architecture.

Chinese Hygon 16-core chip trades blows with AMD Threadripper 1950X in Geekbench — Chinese chipmaker continues to leverage AMD's Zen 1 architecture : Read more

 

[andrewoid]

"modern-day CPUs such as the Ryzen 5 5600 (Zen 3)"

 

[Mama Changa]

Do we even care. No one in west will buy these dinosaurs if they were even available.

 

[Kondamin]

Do we even care. No one in west will buy these dinosaurs if they were even available.

if they manage to pair it with an fpga chiplet or something they might find their niche

 

[micheal_15]

Not just dinosaurs, embedded in the microcode (so not fixable) are instructions to install malware payloads to steal data and pump it to Bejing.

 

[das_stig]

The west may not care, but those on sanction lists will, this is still a decent cpu for the age of their cpu industry and knowing the Chinese, they will use it to its maximum capabilities, especially if it can be used in multi-cpu systems.

 

[NeonHD]

The question of whether you (westerners) should care about this is obviously beyond the point.

Obviously you shouldn't care. And obviously it's outdated.

However, I admire the Chinese for trying. This is obviously not made to be marketed outside of China.

P.S. notice how many times I said 'obviously'

 

[Rabbit_AF]

Man, looking at Hygon c86 3350 boards on AliExpress, and none of them are under $600 USD. I can only guess that one of these boards costs double that.

 

[hwertz]

Do we even care. No one in west will buy these dinosaurs if they were even available.

Yes. I am not only interested in goings on within the US,. And I read about a lot of tech I have no intention of ever buying. It's a tech site and it's not like there's such a big flood of stories about CPUs that one can't keep up (and one always has the choice of skipping the story.).

I'm quite interested in developments in what (in the past) was referred to as 'behind the iron curtain'. Are they improving on designs or just (as appears to be the case here) increasing clock speed or core count? Any interesting home grown designs? Etc,

 

[artk2219]

While that performance is definitely not cutting edge, its still very usable for many applications, web servers, vm hosts, workstations, NAS devices, all sorts of things, especially if its reasonably efficient. Honestly its powerful enough for mid tier gaming. Sure it wont be pushing an RTX 4090 to its limits, but an Arc A580, RTX 3060, or RX 6600 would work just fine with it.