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China still have ways to go, but this show that they seems to make at least some progress. I wonder how long it will be until western benchmarker start doing test on it, would be interesting to see!
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-cpu-matches-14600k-ipc
Tomshardware mentioned that the IPC match Intel 14600k, however it seems to be heavily constrain by only having 4 core and relatively low clock speed.
4c/8t Comet Lake? So that's also circa 2015 Skylake.
The impressive part is that it has IPC on par with Raptor Cove, what's holding it to Skylake performance is the low max clocks.
It literally has higher IPC than Zen4, which is an impressive showing for Loongson. I'm guessing it's a very wide design that has to stay at low clocks because it is hampered by the relatively ancient 14nm process it's manufactured on.
You've gotta give credit where credit is due.
But isn't that in only one single benchmark that they've shown? I'd wait for a range of benchmarks before judging it, power efficiency could also be a huge factor too.