Hardware

Loongson's effort is the 3A6000 processor, which uses its own LoongArch CPU instruction set that has characteristics of both the MIPS and RISC-V architectures. The chip has four physical cores and can run eight hardware threads, includes a pair of DDR4 controllers, and runs at between 2.0GHz and 2.5GHz, consuming 38 watts when running at the latter speed.

Loongson has cited benchmark results that it claims place the 3A6000 on par with a comparable product from Intel's 10th-generation Core family, circa 2020.

The chip shop has not revealed which foundry made the processor, but has revealed it's built on a 12/14nm process.

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.