News Chinese Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU can't beat old Intel and AMD chips — Core i3-8100 and Ryzen 5 5600G come out on top

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The China-made CPU has many upgrades compared to the older KX-6000 series but lags behind even seven-year-old Core i3 CPUs.

Chinese Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU can't beat old Intel and AMD chips — Core i3-8100 and Ryzen 5 5600G come out on top : Read more

 

[Albert.Thomas]

Welcome back, Matt.

It's really sad to see the lack of improvement of the KX-7000 series compared to Centaur's unreleased CNS CPUs.

Those Zhaoxin chips were built upon Centaur's tech, and in eight (?) years they've only managed to increase the memory speed support and the CPU's clockspeeds - it looks like there is a complete lack of IPC improvement.

I'm tempted to import one to bench it against the unreleased Centaur chip

 

[erazog]

Those CPU's are really only intended for industrial/government use, where x86 and windows compatibility is still a necessity everything else is secondary, Loongarch is what they want to replace x86 with so that might explain why Zhaoxin haven't done much with it.

The GPU is based off the Via Chrome series from the mid 2000's, allegedly their updated win 10 iGPU driver even recognised the old Chrome cards but never seen it proven.

 

[TCA_ChinChin]

It's really sad to see the lack of improvement of the KX-7000 series compared to Centaur's unreleased CNS CPUs.

Those Zhaoxin chips were built upon Centaur's tech, and in eight (?) years they've only managed to increase the memory speed support and the CPU's clockspeeds - it looks like there is a complete lack of IPC improvement.

I'm tempted to import one to bench it against the unreleased Centaur chip

Yeah honestly kinda disappointing the improvements are so small. It's about a decade behind in terms of performance still which even other Chinese developed CPUs seem to be doing better.

 

[nookoool]

With a proper nvdia video card, I have seen black myth, new Doom, Battlefield 5 , etc being played off the Zhaoxin with acceptable framerate and quality. Seems the big hindrance is the poor integrated gpu and price/performance. With all the tech sanctions... every review will be "china cpu is behind...blah blah" for the next 5-10 years.

 

[zsydeepsky]

It's really sad to see the lack of improvement of the KX-7000 series compared to Centaur's unreleased CNS CPUs.

true, from history Zhaoxin doesn't seem like a competitive CPU maker. they are "slow", to put it in a nice way.

their biggest value is the x86 IP license they got from VIA (somewhat questionable in legal terms), and man they really took a lazy nap on it. once the tech industry moves to ARM/RISCV, the gov support they could get will probably evaporate. once that happens, they almost certain will be out competed by other Chinese chip makers, let alone top tier companies like AMD or Intel.

 

[snemarch]

It's really sad to see the lack of improvement of the KX-7000 series compared to Centaur's unreleased CNS CPUs.

It would be interesting to see another competitive x86 chip, but like erazog says – the point of that chip is probably self-sufficiency for legacy needs, while focusing new development on LoongArch.

In that light, while this CPU might be disappointing when compared to current-gen x86, the ability to produce a domestic x86 compatible chip with some oomph IMHO does seem newsworthy

 

[Amdlova]

I'am using right now the 2500K feels super good... if they catch a i3 8100 it's good news.