(JW Insights) Aug 4 -- Chinese chipmaker Loongson disclosed (via @9550pro) some of the actual test results of its quad-core 3A6000 processor this week and said that they were comparable to Intel's quad-core '10th-Gen Core' processor from 2020, Tom’s Hardware reported on August 2.

"Based on the relevant test results, the overall performance of the Loongson 3A6000 processor is comparable to that of Intel's 10th generation Core quad-core processor launched in 2020," a statement by Loongson reads.

According to Loongson, its 3A6000-series processors employ a brand-new 6-way multiple-issue Dragon microarchitecture that is significantly more efficient than its predecessor. Meanwhile, the company has so far published the results of its 3A6000 CPU at 2.50 GHz and has not disclosed the final clocks of the actual processors that are due to ship several months from now.

To that end, it is too early to draw any conclusions about the performance of Loongson's upcoming processors. On the one hand, it looks like the 3A6000 is faster than the 3A5000 at the same clock in the discontinued SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark, but that's based on results published by the company itself. The chip also seems to be faster than its predecessor and Intel's Skylake in UnixBench at 2.50 – 2.60 GHz.

“Since there are no independently obtained benchmark results of the 3A6000, we cannot really say whether or not Loongson has succeeded in developing a microarchitecture that matches AMD's Zen 3 in terms of IPC performance or not,” said the Tom’s Hardware report.

(Yuan XY)