China’s Loongson 3A6000 8-Core CPU With iGPU Achieves Intel 10th Gen & AMD Zen 2 Performance
China's Loongson 3A6000 CPUs which come with integrated GPUs have achieved performance similar to Intel's 10th Gen chips.
Loongson Zhongke chairman Hu Weiwu announced at a briefing discussing the company's sales for the first quarter of 2023 that the company has developed its initial System on Chip (SoC) that implements its proprietary general-purpose graphics processor. Following the announcement, it was revealed that the expected release date for this new SoC chip (3A6000) is scheduled for 2023.
During the announcement, Hu Weiwu revealed that the SoC was previously taped out in the first quarter of this year.
At present, the relevant IP research and development has been basically completed, and comprehensive verification is being carried out. On this basis, in the second half of 2024, the tape-out of a dedicated chip that takes into account graphics card and computing power acceleration functions will be completed.
— Hu Weiwu, Chairman, Loonson Zhongke
To improve the processor's performance, the chairman revealed that frequency & efficiency were significant for the company to work towards. The Loongson 3A6000 reaches a score of 17 points per GHz, which now means the company can work towards 20 points for the chip. Intel's chip has a much higher frequency but the score per GHz ranges between 15-20 points within SPEC CPU 2006.
The company reiterated that the performance of the 3A6000 is comparable to AMD's Zen 2 architecture built on the 7nm process technology, which is also equal to Intel's 10th Gen Core processor series.
The Loongson CPUs will continue to increase frequency while not following the same roadmap strategy as Intel. The company is afraid of negatively affecting efficiency in place of frequency, so Loongson will
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