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.
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Loongson 3A6000 CPUs For China's Domestic Market Releasing Next Year, Performance On Par With Intel's 10th Gen & AMD's Zen 2 Cores
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.
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 continue to reduce power consumption and overall cost at 3 GHz. The company is also planning to tape out its first hybrid (BIG.little) design in the first half of 2024 & the successor to the 3A6000, the 3B6000, is expected to offer four big and four small cores with an advanced iGPU.
The company will also start development of its next-generation 3A7000 and 3B7000 CPUs which are expected to tackle AMD's Zen 3 and Intel's Tiger Lake offerings by the second half of 2024.