From the «monsoon slowsong» department:
Feed: OSnews
Title: Loongson’s 3A5000: China’s best shot?
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:51:02 -0400
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/136018/loongsons-3a5000-chinas-best-shot/

Loongson’s 3A5000 is the most promising domestic Chinese CPU we’ve seen so
far. Compared to the Zhaoxin KX-6640MA and Phytium D2000, Loongson’s 3A5000 is
a wide core with a better balanced backend and a better cache hierarchy. But
it suffers the same fundamental issues as the other two in its quest to be a
general purpose CPU. Loongson’s LA464 simply cannot deliver performance in the
same class as any recent Intel or AMD architecture[1]. Compared to its western
counterparts, LA464’s architecture is smaller, the L2 and L3 caches are worse,
and the DDR4 memory controller is embarrassingly bad. Even though Loongson has
gotten their cores up from 1 GHz to 2.5 GHz, no one runs desktop or even
laptop CPUs at clocks that low. Because of its massive clock speed deficiency,
Loongson can’t even get in to the same performance ballpark as recent desktop
CPUs. It even struggles against Neoverse N1 running at 3 GHz[2].

This is a far more detailed looking at these processors than we posted a few
days ago.

Links:
[1]: https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/04/09/loongsons-3a5000-chinas-best-shot/ (link)
[2]: https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/01/29/previewing-chinas-loongson-3a5000-with-performance-counters/ (link)

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