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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Aaron Klotz

China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks

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Loongson.

It's rare to find Loongson CPUs outside of China, but a Linux reviewer has managed to get one of the CPU manufacturer's 12-core chips for testing. Phoronix reviewed Loongson's 12-core 3B6000 processor in a plethora of Linux-based benchmarks. Despite its high core count, Phoronix's benchmark numbers revealed that the chip can't even approach the performance of modern Western six-core chips like the Ryzen 5 9600X.

The 3B6000 was reportedly sent over to the Linux-based outlet by the Loongson Hobbyists Community. The 3B6000 came inside a 3B6000x1-7A2000x1-EVB micro-ATX with two DIMM slots, one M.2 slot, two PCIe x16 slots, and just a handful of USB ports.

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