A new 16-core processor from Hygon—a fabless chip maker in China that uses AMD's first-gen Zen IP—has popped up on Geekbench. It offers 60% better performance than a similar eight-core Hygon processor we covered in the past. The performance bump isn't substantial when you consider the chip has twice the number of cores, but since the manufacturer is stuck on a now seven-year-old architecture—Zen 1—there isn't much that can be achieved apart from increasing core counts.
Looking at the Geekbench listing, the chip was benchmarked using the Hygon XHVTBST board under the openKylin 2.0 Operating System (based on Linux). The CPU is named Hygon C86-4G - alternatively dubbed C86 3490 - a step higher than the eight-core C86 3350 - belonging to the same Hygon C86-3000 family. The CPU offered a rather low base frequency of 2.8 GHz and was equipped with around 32GB of RAM. Since an older release of Geekbench was used for this benchmark, we've listed a few other x86 CPUs running the same version for comparison.
