The Evolution Of The MIPS-Compatible LoongArch Architecture
In reaction to the tariffs and trade restrictions that have been levied against them, China chose to start developing their own silicon. The LoongArch architecture was designed and is being developed by Loongsoon, base on the MIPS RISC architecture. Their new Godson CPU is called the 3A6000 based on SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark simulation test results Loongsoon have posted, the performance should be on par with a Zen 3 Ryzen 5xxx or an 11th Gen Intel Rocket Lake chip. As with any self published results, you are going to want a bit of salt on the side.
If true that is a fairly strong showing and quite a jump from the previous 3A5000 silicon, which we haven’t seen in the wild for somewhat obvious reasons. That result is still somewhat behind Intel and AMD’s recently released generation and so far there has been little to no information about power draw so it will be interesting to see what those specifications are when the 3A6000 is actually released.
It is likely to take a while for the details to leak, but it seems a safe bet that they will sooner or later.
Previous reports have indicated that Loongson's 3A6000 processor will allegedly provide performance that is on par with AMD's Ryzen 5000 CPUs and Intel's 11th-Gen Core CPUs, which both debuted in 2020.
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I feel like I’m outa the loup on this one, will it be X86 or ARM compatible? Or are they trying for something new OR are they planing to emulate one or the other or both?
you’re either doing too much or too little collie man
“The company has previously claimed that its chips feature circuitry that helps with the emulation and binary translation of non-Loongson instruction sets such as x86 and Arm”
Yea, I clicked the link in the article after I posted instead of before because… well because Collie. Still, VERY COOL, one wonders what real world performance will be when all is said and done. I know it’s cliche, but seriously, can it run Crysis? Like for real this time? I guess time will tell
Yea, I clicked the link in the article after I posted instead of before because… well because Collie. Still, VERY COOL, one wonders what real world performance will be when all is said and done. I know it’s cliche, but seriously, can it run Crysis? Like for real this time? I guess time will tell