News Hygon 8-core Chinese CPU matches Zen 2 multi-threaded performance in Geekbench

[Admin]

A system sporting a Hygon C86 3350 processor was benchmarked by a Bilibili content creator in Geekbench revealing the chip has Zen 2 levels of multi-threaded performance. A huge step up from Hygon's previous CPUs.

Hygon 8-core Chinese CPU matches Zen 2 multi-threaded performance in Geekbench : Read more

 

[Metal Messiah.]

"In fact, this previous chip, with its eight cores, was so bad that it took two of these CPUs (the C86 3185) to outperform the Ryzen 5 5600X in multi-core testing. Even then, the performance gap was not much, given that the two Hygon CPUs had 32 cores combined, compared to the Ryzen 5's six."

Should be 16 cores, no ? Not 32. Two C86 3185 processors, amounting to 16 total first-gen Zen cores.

 

[JamesJones44]

Still fairly weak performance per core. Hasswell had about equal performance in single core. Slap 2 more cores on Hasswell and it likely meets the multi core score. That means these processors are about 10 years behind still in terms of general performance per core.

 

[ThomasKinsley]

Seems they used more RAM to get that benchmark, so it's not going to run as fast with only 8GB of RAM. But since it's intended for office suite, email and some light internet usage with privacy, it is more than enough.

I'm also curious about the OS. Judging from the image below, "KOS" must be Kylin Operating System, and I'm guessing it's not the Open or Ubuntu flavors either. I'm not up to date on their software as I am on their hardware. How does it stack up to regular Ubuntu or even Deepin?

 

[user7007]

fast enough for basic office work. not very exciting but nothing wrong with that.

 

[Pierce2623]

Since this is Geekbench, they probably used ddr5 to give it a higher score than it really deserved in comparison to ddr4 platforms, since Geekbench scales unreasonably well on RAM frequency.

 

[usertests]

fast enough for basic office work. not very exciting but nothing wrong with that.

If I'm not mistaken, Hygon CPUs are x86 compatible, no translation needed. These scores might as well be compared to a 1600X which gets similar multi-threaded scores and single-threaded in between the Hygon and Ryzen 5 3500. This could be enough for many games to run at 30-60 FPS.

https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=✓&q=Ryzen+1600X

 

[jp7189]

I seem to recall a joint venture between amd and hygon where amd sold an x86 license and zen 1 plan so that hygon could manufacture a home grown zen 1 counterpart. If I'm remembering that correctly, that means it took 8+ years for hygon to progress from zen 1 to zen 2 without amd's help.